FKIE_CVE-2025-8453

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-20 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:07
Severity
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cybersecurity@se.comhttps://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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T10:07:01.213",
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