Gladinet CentreStack through 16.1.10296.56315 (fixed in 16.4.10315.56368) has a deserialization vulnerability due to the CentreStack portal's hardcoded machineKey use, as exploited in the wild in March 2025. This enables threat actors (who know the machineKey) to serialize a payload for server-side deserialization to achieve remote code execution. NOTE: a CentreStack admin can manually delete the machineKey defined in portal\web.config.
The product uses a hard-coded, unchangeable cryptographic key.
The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.centrestack.com/p/gce_latest_release.html | release notes |
| https://gladinetsupport.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/gladinet/securityadvisory-cve-2005.pdf | mitigation patch vendor advisory |