fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2025-11906

fkie_cve-2025-11906

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-10-30 08:15

Modified

2025-10-30 15:03

Severity ?

6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

A vulnerability exists in Progress Flowmon versions prior 12.5.6 where certain system configuration files have incorrect file permissions, allowing a user with access to the default flowmon system user account used for SSH access to potentially escalate privileges to root during service initialization.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@progress.com	https://community.progress.com/s/article/Progress-Flowmon-CVE-2025-11906

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2025-11906 (GCVE-0-2025-11906)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-10-30 07:39

Modified

2025-10-31 03:55

Severity ?

6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Summary

A vulnerability exists in Progress Flowmon versions prior 12.5.6 where certain system configuration files have incorrect file permissions, allowing a user with access to the default flowmon system user account used for SSH access to potentially escalate privileges to root during service initialization.

References

URL

Tags

https://community.progress.com/s/article/Progress-Flowmon-CVE-2025-11906

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Progress Software	Flowmon	Version: Flowmon 12 versions prior to 12.5.6 <

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