CVE-2025-10450: RTI Connext Professional network traffic sniffing via unencrypted communication

CVE-2025-10450 · Severity: high · CVSS 7.5 · Published 2025-12-16

RTI Connext Professional is a middleware platform used for real-time distributed system communication. This vulnerability allows an attacker on the network to intercept and read unencrypted traffic, exposing sensitive data exchanged between Connext-based applications without requiring authentication or special privileges.

Technologies: Rti Connext Professional. Vendors: Rti.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2025-10450 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-10450 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2025-10450?
High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 16 December 2025.
Which products and versions are affected?
Rti Connext Professional 7.4.0 to 7.6.x, 7.2.0 to 7.3.0.
Is there a fix for CVE-2025-10450?
A patch was published on 2025-12-16: Patches available for 7.7.0 and 7.3.1+ Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
How is CVE-2025-10450 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
Am I affected by CVE-2025-10450?
Check whether you run Rti Connext Professional at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

Technical details

The vulnerability is a failure to encrypt network communication in the Connext Professional Core Libraries, allowing network sniffing of unprotected traffic. The issue affects versions 7.4.0 through 7.6.x and 7.2.0 through 7.3.0. An attacker positioned on the network (adjacent or same subnet) can passively capture and read Connext communication traffic. No authentication or user interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability; only network access is needed. Patches are available for supported LTS versions through RTI's standard patching process.

Affected products

  • RTI Connext Professional 7.4.0 to 7.6.x, 7.2.0 to 7.3.0

Timeline

  • 2025-12-16: disclosed
  • 2025-12-16: patched: Patches available for 7.7.0 and 7.3.1+

References

This page as Markdown. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link back.