CVE-2025-13917 (GCVE-0-2025-13917)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-28 16:29 – Updated: 2026-01-28 16:43
VLAI
Title
Elevation of Privileges in Web Security Services (WSS) Agent
Summary
WSS Agent, prior to 9.8.5, may be susceptible to a Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-28 16:42 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Broadcom Symantec Web Security Services Agent Affected: 9.8.4
Unaffected: 9.8.5
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Credits
dfc3d21780 Cparta Cyber Defense AB
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