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CVE-2025-49642 (GCVE-0-2025-49642)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-01 13:03 – Updated: 2025-12-01 14:36
VLAI
Title
Agent builds for AIX vulnerable to library loading hijacking
Summary
Library loading on AIX Zabbix Agent builds can be hijacked by local users with write access to the /home/cecuser directory.
Severity
5.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-01 14:36 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Zabbix Zabbix Affected: 6.0.0 , ≤ 6.0.36 (git)
Affected: 7.0.0 , ≤ 7.0.5 (git)
Affected: 7.2.0 , < 7.2.1 (git)
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Credits
Zabbix wants to thank José Pina Coelho for finding and reporting this issue.
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