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CVE-2025-12690

Local Privilege Escalation in NGFW Engine

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: March 11, 2026 at 03:36 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:32 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNext Generation Firewall

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Next Generation Firewall· Forcepoint
95%
v ≤ 6.10.19v ≤ 7.1.10v ≤ 7.2.4v ≤ 7.3.0v < 6.10.207.1.0 ≤ v < 7.1.117.2.0 ≤ v < 7.2.57.3.0

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

Vendor Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://support.forcepoint.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Local-Privilege-Escalation-in-NGFW-Engine

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.8HIGH[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-250NVD-CWE-noinfo

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