Untargeted information leak in Bolt protocol handshake
Priority LOW 28CWE-226Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 4 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
Potential information leak in bolt protocol handshake in Neo4j Enterprise and Community editions allows attacker to obtain one byte of information from previous connections. The attacker has no control over the information leaked in server responses.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00322 25th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial Enterprise Edition (neo4j): 5.26.15, 2025.10.1Community Edition (neo4j): 5.26.15, 2025.10.1Red Hat: 4 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Enterprise Edition (neo4j) Fixed in 5.26.15, 2025.10.1
- Fix · CNA Community Edition (neo4j) Fixed in 5.26.15, 2025.10.1
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Fuse 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-11602
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jwg7-fm78-3f3q
References
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- TI-2018-13005 Due to incorrect access control in Neo4j Enterprise Database Server 3.4.x before 3.4.9… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
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- TI-2026-01049 Insufficient escaping of unicode characters in query log CVSS 4.0LOW 1.1
Sources
- CVE-2025-11602 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-11602 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jwg7-fm78-3f3q · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-11602 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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