CVE-2025-5718: medium-severity vulnerability in AXIS OS
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.8epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 73% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The ACAP Application framework could allow privilege escalation through a symlink attack. This vulnerability can only be exploited if the Axis device is configured to allow the installation of unsigned ACAP applications, and if an attacker convinces the victim to install a malicious ACAP application.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Axis Communications AB · AXIS OSRelated CVEs — AXIS OS
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