CVE-2025-55116 (GCVE-0-2025-55116)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 12:22 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
BMC Control-M/Agent buffer overflow local privilege escalation
Summary
A buffer overflow 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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-17 03:55 UTC
CWE
- CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
2 references
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Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMC | Control-M/Agent |
Unaffected:
9.0.21
(semver)
Unaffected: 9.0.20.100 (semver) Affected: 9.0.20 (semver) Affected: 9.0.19 (semver) Affected: 9.0.18 (semver) |
guessed |
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