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.
History

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000

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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.
Weaknesses CWE-269
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.4, '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'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: schneider

Published: 2025-08-20T12:52:50.191Z

Updated: 2025-08-20T15:11:28.414Z

Reserved: 2025-08-01T02:45:24.698Z

Link: CVE-2025-8453

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-20T15:11:23.492Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-20T13:15:29.660

Modified: 2025-08-20T14:39:07.860

Link: CVE-2025-8453

cve-icon Redhat

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