CVE-2025-8453

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.

CVSS v3 6.7 MEDIUM

6.7^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 0.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://download.schneider-electric.com/files?p_Doc_Ref=SEVD-2025-224-01&p_enDocType=Security+and+Safety+Notice&p_File_Name=SEVD-2025-224-01.pdf

Configurations

No configuration.

History

20 Aug 2025, 13:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-08-20 13:15

Updated : 2025-08-20 14:39

NVD link : CVE-2025-8453

Mitre link : CVE-2025-8453

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-8453

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

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