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CVE-2025-8453 HIGH

Published: 2025-08-20 | Last Modified: 2026-04-15 | Status: Deferred

Description

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists that could cause privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when a privileged engineer user with console access modifies a configuration file used by a root-level daemon to execute custom scripts.

Additional Descriptions (1)

CWE-269: Existe una vulnerabilidad de administración inadecuada de privilegios que podría provocar una escalada de privilegios y la ejecución de código arbitrario cuando un usuario ingeniero privilegiado con acceso a la consola modifica un archivo de configuración utilizado por un daemon de nivel raíz para ejecutar scripts personalizados.

CVSS Metrics

Base Score: 6.7 (MEDIUM)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredHIGH
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
Confidentiality ImpactHIGH
Integrity ImpactHIGH
Availability ImpactHIGH

Source: [email protected]

Type: Secondary

Exploitability Score: 0.8

Impact Score: 5.9

Base Score: 8.4 (HIGH)

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Attack RequirementsNONE
Privileges RequiredHIGH
User InteractionNONE
Vulnerability ConfidentialityHIGH
Vulnerability IntegrityHIGH
Vulnerability AvailabilityHIGH
Subsequent ConfidentialityNONE
Subsequent IntegrityNONE
Subsequent AvailabilityNONE

Source: [email protected]

Type: Secondary

Weaknesses

Source Type Description
[email protected] Secondary
en CWE-269
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