Privilege escalation via writable configuration files in Progress Flowmon
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.7epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 97% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A vulnerability exists in Progress Flowmon versions prior 12.5.6 where certain system configuration files have incorrect file permissions, allowing a user with access to the default flowmon system user account used for SSH access to potentially escalate privileges to root during service initialization.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Progress Software · Flowmon