CVE-2025-10678: NetBird VPN does not remove the default password of an admin account

October 20, 2025

NetBird VPN when installed using vendor’s provided script failed to remove or change default password of an admin account created by ZITADEL. This issue affects instances installed using vendor’s provided script. This issue may affect instances created with Docker if the default password was not changed nor the user was removed.

This issue has been fixed in version 0.57.0.

References

cert.pl/en/posts/2025/10/CVE-2025-10678
github.com/advisories/GHSA-g3j4-58mp-3x25
github.com/netbirdio/netbird
github.com/netbirdio/netbird/commit/cf7f6c355f713e83cf171b79e08dac60b316e4fd
netbird.io/
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10678

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