# Re: ADV-2025-016 - Hard-coded Password in High Availability Configuration for NPS

**URL:** <https://community.netwrix.com/t/re-adv-2025-016-hard-coded-password-in-high-availability-configuration-for-nps/110329>\
**Category:** Privilege Secure Discussions & Questions\
**Tags:** privilege-secure, threat-prevention\
**Created:** [July 17, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.netwrix.com/t/re-adv-2025-016-hard-coded-password-in-high-availability-configuration-for-nps/110329 "2025-07-17T15:05:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![bobmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@bobmc](https://community.netwrix.com/u/bobmc)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.netwrix.com/t/re-adv-2025-016-hard-coded-password-in-high-availability-configuration-for-nps/110329/1 "2025-07-17T15:05:11Z")

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Does this advisory apply where NPS is in active/passive mode but does NOT use PostGres - i.e Microsoft SQL HA replication is used instead?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![adam.sneed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@adam.sneed](https://community.netwrix.com/u/adam.sneed)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.netwrix.com/t/re-adv-2025-016-hard-coded-password-in-high-availability-configuration-for-nps/110329/2 "2025-07-17T15:12:17Z")

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Welcome to the community Robert!

No, this only applies to environments using internal postgres (installed on same servers as the NPS-AM application) in an HA Active-Passive configuration. If you are using MSSQL or any external database it does not apply.

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**Author:** ![bobmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@bobmc](https://community.netwrix.com/u/bobmc)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://community.netwrix.com/t/re-adv-2025-016-hard-coded-password-in-high-availability-configuration-for-nps/110329/3 "2025-07-22T08:56:43Z")

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Thanks for confirming 😀

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/netwrix/user_avatar/community.netwrix.com/system/32/3102_2.png) [@system](https://community.netwrix.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2025, 8:57am UTC](https://community.netwrix.com/t/re-adv-2025-016-hard-coded-password-in-high-availability-configuration-for-nps/110329/4 "2025-09-20T08:57:17Z")

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