SecuriTricks - CVE-2025-55115

Description

A path traversal 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. This vulnerability was fixed in 9.0.20.100 and above.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor	Product	Versions
Bmc Software	Control-m Agent	9.0.18-9.0.20, 9.0.20.100

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-23

Relative Path Traversal

The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize sequences such as ".." that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language	Software Edition	Target Software	Target Hardware	Other Information
a	bmc_software	control-m_agent	9.0.18-9.0.20	/	/	/	/	/	/	/
a	bmc_software	control-m_agent	9.0.20.100	/	/	/	/	/	/	/

References

https://bmcapps.my.site.com/casemgmt/sc_KnowledgeArticle?sfdcid=000441969

https://bmcapps.my.site.com/casemgmt/sc_KnowledgeArticle?sfdcid=000442099

CVSS Score

9.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

Attack Vector: LOCAL
Attack Complexity: LOW
Attack Requirements: NONE
Privileges Required: LOW
User Interaction: NONE
Scope:
Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
Integrity Impact: HIGH
Availability Impact: HIGH
Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: Sept. 16, 2025, 1:16 p.m.
Last Modified: Sept. 17, 2025, 2:18 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cert@airbus.com

CVE-2025-55115