CVE-2025-9497 (GCVE-0-2025-9497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-28 10:58 – Updated: 2026-04-01 13:55
VLAI?
Title
Hardcoded Upgrade Decryption Passwords
Summary
Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability in Microchip Time Provider 4100 allows Malicious Manual Software Update.This issue affects Time Provider 4100: before 2.5.0.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:L/SI:H/SA:L/E:P
CWE
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microchip Time Provider 4100 Affected: 0 , < 2.5.0 (semver)
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Date Public ?
2026-03-28 07:00
Credits
Dario Emilio Bertani Raffaele Bova Andrea Sindoni Simone Bossi Antonio Carriero Marco Manieri Vito Pistillo Davide Renna Manuel Leone Massimiliano Brolli TIM Security Red Team Research (TIM S.p.A)
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