CVE-2025-12690CWE-250

Local Privilege Escalation in NGFW Engine

High · published March 11, 2026

CVSS v4.0
7.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Execution with unnecessary privileges in Forcepoint NGFW Engine allows local privilege escalation.This issue affects NGFW Engine through 6.10.19, through 7.3.0, through 7.2.4, through 7.1.10.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00127 · 2.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-250 · Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Published
2026-03-11T15:36Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 MAR 15:36Z
    Local Privilege Escalation in NGFW Engine
    cvelistv5