CVE-2025-8453CWE-269

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists that could cause privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when a privileged engineer user…

High · published August 20, 2025

CVSS v4.0
8.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.4 · HIGH
Vector
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
EPSS
0.00192 · 8.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2025-08-20T12:52Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 AUG 12:52Z
    CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists that could cause privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when a privileged engineer user…
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