{"id":"CVE-2025-8453","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-8453","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:37:09.151Z","title":"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…","description":"CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists that could cause privilege escalation and\narbitrary code execution when a privileged engineer user with console access modifies a configuration file\nused by a root-level daemon to execute custom scripts.","published":"2025-08-20T13:15:30.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:07:01.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"cybersecurity@se.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.4,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00192,"percentile":0.08803,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.19%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://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","source":"cybersecurity@se.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8453","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}