CVE-2025-12690 (GCVE-0-2025-12690)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-11 15:36 – Updated: 2026-03-11 16:10
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Title
Local Privilege Escalation in NGFW Engine
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.3 (High)
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
CWE
  • CWE-250 - Execution with unnecessary privileges
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Forcepoint NGFW Engine Affected: 0 , ≤ 6.10.19 (semver)
Affected: 0 , ≤ 7.3.0 (semver)
Affected: 0 , ≤ 7.2.4 (semver)
Affected: 0 , ≤ 7.1.10 (semver)
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Credits
Francesco Caserta, Andrea Lomuscio and Alessandro Ruggieri of the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency
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