Vulnerability · Published Dec 26, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2025-15099simstudioai sim CRON Secret internal.ts improper authentication
High 7.3
In plain English
A high-severity improper authentication in sim from simstudioai. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 56% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability was identified in simstudioai sim up to 0.5.27. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file apps/sim/lib/auth/internal.ts of the component CRON Secret Handler. The manipulation of the argument INTERNAL_API_SECRET leads to improper authentication. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. The identifier of the patch is e359dc2946b12ed5e45a0ec9c95ecf91bd18502a. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| simstudioai | sim | 0.5.00.5.10.5.20.5.30.5.40.5.50.5.60.5.7 |
Weakness: CWE-287 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
References
- VDB-338430 | simstudioai sim CRON Secret internal.ts improper authentication vdb-entry, technical-description
- VDB-338430 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) signature, permissions-required
- Submit #710255 | https://github.com/simstudioai https://github.com/simstudioai/sim ≤ v0.5.21 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness third-party-advisory
- https://gist.github.com/H2u8s/c533741e1b36f6245d41cace89a7f4d2 related
- https://github.com/simstudioai/sim/pull/2343 issue-tracking
- https://gist.github.com/H2u8s/c533741e1b36f6245d41cace89a7f4d2#-steps-to-reproduce exploit
- https://github.com/simstudioai/sim/commit/e359dc2946b12ed5e45a0ec9c95ecf91bd18502a patch