CVE-2025-27580 Information

Description

NIH BRICS (aka Biomedical Research Informatics Computing System) through 14.0.0-67 generates predictable tokens (that depend on username time and the fixed 7Dl9dj- string) and thus allows unauthenticated users with a Common Access Card (CAC) to escalate privileges and compromise any account including administrators.

Reference

https://brics.cit.nih.gov https://bugculture.io/CVE-2025-27580/ https://github.com/brics-dev/brics https://github.com/brics-dev/brics/blob/26bc6bb627a9a60e6c6a8a8c29735ae98c2e2679/core/src/main/java/gov/nih/tbi/CoreConstants.java#L38 https://github.com/brics-dev/brics/blob/26bc6bb627a9a60e6c6a8a8c29735ae98c2e2679/service/src/main/java/gov/nih/tbi/account/service/complex/AccountManagerImpl.java#L725-L732 https://github.com/RoseHacks/Vulnerability.Research/blob/main/CVE-2025-27580/README.md