Vulnerability · Published Oct 2, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2025-59405
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity information exposure in the affected software. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Flock Safety Peripheral com.flocksafety.android.peripheral application 7.38.3 for Android (installed on Falcon and Sparrow License Plate Readers and Bravo Edge AI Compute Devices) contains a cleartext DataDog API key within in its codebase. Because application binaries can be trivially decompiled or inspected, attackers can recover the OAuth secret without special privileges. This secret is intended to remain confidential and should never be embedded directly in client-side software.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-200 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- https://gainsec.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Root-from-the-Coop-Device-3_-Root-Shell-on-Flock-Safetys-Bravo-Compute-Box-GainSec.pdf
- https://www.flocksafety.com/products
- https://www.flocksafety.com/products/license-plate-readers
- https://gainsec.com/2025/09/27/fly-by-device-2-the-falcon-sparrow-gated-wireless-rce-camera-feed-dos-information-disclosure-and-more/