CVE-2025-8876

Command Injection Vulnerability

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 14, 2025 at 02:53 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 10:07 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorN Central

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploitation
CISA KEV
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
SSVC
Active

Actively Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog

EPSS Score4.1%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) estimates a 4.1% chance this CVE is exploited in the wild within the next 30 days — higher than 91% of all CVEs. It complements CVSS: a high EPSS on a mid-severity CVE can still be urgent.

N-able N-Central contains a command injection vulnerability via improper sanitization of user input.

Required Action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Ransomware Use
Unknown
Added to KEV
Aug 13, 2025
Remediation Due
Aug 20, 2025
436 days overdue

Description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in N-able N-central allows OS Command Injection.This issue affects N-central: before 2025.3.1.

Affected

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

v < 2025.3.1
Affected range stops below 2025.3.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

Release Notes
Source: a5532a13-c4dd-4202-bef1-e0b8f2f8d12b
https://status.n-able.com/2025/08/13/announcing-the-ga-of-n-central-2025-3-1/
US Government Resource
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-8876

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCActiveNot automatableTotal impact

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

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-20CWE-78

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