CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-8453

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Aug 20, 2025 | Modified: Aug 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Potential Mitigations

References