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CVE-2025-48927

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Unauthenticated Heap Dump Disclosure in Smarsh TeleMessage TM SGNL

CISA: TeleMessage TM SGNL Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default Vulnerability

CVSS 3.1
5.3 medium
EPSS
11%p96
Published
()
KEV added
AI analysis

CVE-2025-48927 is an insecure-default-configuration flaw (CWE-1188) in the TeleMessage TM SGNL messaging-archiving service sold by Smarsh, in which Spring Boot Actuator was enabled with its heap dump endpoint exposed at the /heapdump URI in service builds through 2025-05-05. The endpoint required no authentication, so any unauthenticated remote attacker could simply request /heapdump and download the Java process's heap dump, with no privileges or user interaction required. A heap dump exposes the application's in-memory state, potentially including archived message content, credentials, and session secrets, so the impact is confidentiality (information disclosure). Affected parties are organizations and users of the TeleMessage TM SGNL service running service builds through 2025-05-05. The flaw was exploited in the wild in May 2025 and CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-07-01 (ransomware use unknown, no public proof-of-concept known), with EPSS currently at about 11% probability of exploitation over the next 30 days.

What to do: U.S. federal agencies must apply mitigations per Smarsh/TeleMessage instructions under BOD 22-01, or discontinue use of the service if mitigations are unavailable. Other customers should confirm with the vendor that their TM SGNL service is running builds later than 2025-05-05 with the Actuator /heapdump endpoint disabled or authenticated, review whether service credentials or archived message data may have leaked through heap dumps, and rotate any exposed secrets.

Affected
Smarsh TeleMessage TM SGNLservice through 2025-05-05 (builds on or before May 5, 2025)
Estimated exposure
nicheunknown; plausibly thousands of users across a limited set of government and enterprise customers of the hosted TM SGNL service (no public user or install… — TM SGNL is a niche hosted messaging-archiving service used primarily by government agencies and regulated enterprises with no published install base, and the flaw lies in the vendor's service configuration rather than widely deployed…

Order-of-magnitude estimate by the model from install counts, market share and public scan data it knows; verify before quoting.

Description

The TeleMessage service through 2025-05-05 configures Spring Boot Actuator with an exposed heap dump endpoint at a /heapdump URI, as exploited in the wild in May 2025.

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Affected
TeleMessage TM SGNL
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Due date
Ransomware use
Unknown
Vendors
smarsh
Products
telemessage
Weakness
CWE-1188
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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