CVE-2025-41240: VMware Bitnamicharts/appsmith

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Three Bitnami Helm charts mount Kubernetes Secrets under a predictable path (/opt/bitnami/*/secrets) that is located within the web server document root. In affected versions, this can lead to unauthenticated access to sensitive credentials via HTTP/S. A remote attacker could retrieve these secrets by accessing specific URLs if the application is exposed externally. The issue affects deployments using the default value of usePasswordFiles=true, which mounts secrets as files into the container filesystem.

Affected products

• VMware Bitnamicharts/appsmith: from 21.2.0, up to and including 22.0.4
• VMware Bitnamicharts/drupal: from 5.2.0, before 6.0.19 (fixed in 6.0.19)
• VMware Bitnamicharts/wordpress: from 24.2.0, before 25.0.4 (fixed in 25.0.4)

Published 2025-07-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.