FKIE_CVE-2025-55116

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-16 13:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:41
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A buffer overflow in the Control-M/Agent can lead to a local privilege escalation when an attacker has access to the system running the Agent. This vulnerability impacts the out-of-support Control-M/Agent versions 9.0.18 to 9.0.20 and potentially earlier unsupported versions.
References
cert@airbus.comhttps://bmcapps.my.site.com/casemgmt/sc_KnowledgeArticle?sfdcid=000441969Vendor Advisory
cert@airbus.comhttps://bmcapps.my.site.com/casemgmt/sc_KnowledgeArticle?sfdcid=000442099Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
bmc control-m\/agent *
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