What is CVE-2025-14261?

CVE-2025-14261 is a high-severity vulnerability in Litmuschaos Litmus, classified under Insufficient Entropy. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2025-12-08.

How severe is CVE-2025-14261?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Litmuschaos Litmus

CVE-2025-14261

The Litmus platform uses JWT for authentication and authorization, but the secret being used for signing the JWT is only 6 bytes long at its core, which makes it extremely easy to crack.

Published 2025-12-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (20.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 20.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Litmuschaos Litmus — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-331 — Insufficient Entropy

References

research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/litmus-jwt-missing-entropy-elevation-jfsa-20… (third-party-advisory)
github.com/litmuschaos/litmus/pull/5324 (patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-14261?: CVE-2025-14261 is a high-severity vulnerability in Litmuschaos Litmus, classified under Insufficient Entropy. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2025-12-08.
How severe is CVE-2025-14261?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.