CVE-2025-61680 (GCVE-0-2025-61680)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-03 21:37 – Updated: 2025-10-06 15:43
VLAI
Title
Minecraft RCON Terminal: Plain Text Password Storage in Configuration
Summary
Minecraft RCON Terminal is a VS Code extension that streamlines Minecraft server management. Versions 0.1.0 through 2.0.6 stores passwords using VS Code's configuration API which writes to settings.json in plaintext. This issue is fixed in version 2.1.0.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-06 15:43 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-256 - Plaintext Storage of a Password
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7730 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
jaketcooper Minecraft-rcon Affected: >= 0.1.0, < 2.1.0
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