CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-12690

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The Forcepoint NGFW Engine has an issue with executing operations with unnecessary privileges, allowing local privilege escalation. This issue affects NGFW Engine versions from 6.10.19 through 7.3.0, 7.2.4, and 7.1.10.

Risk Assessment

Local privilege escalation may lead to unauthorized access to the system, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the NGFW Engine to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and minimize the risk associated with local privilege escalation.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS