Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2025-13447 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Progress Loadmaster. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059); ranked in the top 2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-13447 is an OS Command Injection vulnerability (CWE-78) in the API of Progress LoadMaster, enabling remote code execution on the LoadMaster appliance. The issue stems from unsanitized input in API parameters, allowing injection of arbitrary OS commands. Published on 2026-01-13, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.4 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity with adjacent network access required.
An authenticated attacker possessing “User Administration” permissions can exploit the vulnerability over the network from an adjacent segment. By crafting malicious input for vulnerable API parameters, the attacker achieves remote code execution, potentially gaining full control over the LoadMaster appliance, including high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts in a scoped manner.
Progress has issued security advisories addressing CVE-2025-13447 alongside CVE-2025-13444 in contexts including LoadMaster, Connection Manager for ObjectScale, ECS Connection Manager, and MOVEit WAF. Mitigation details, such as patches or workarounds, are available in the following community articles: https://community.progress.com/s/article/Connection-Manager-for-ObjectScale-Vulnerabilities-CVE-2025-13444-CVE-2025-13447, https://community.progress.com/s/article/ECS-Connection-Manager-Vulnerabilities-CVE-2025-13444-CVE-2025-13447, https://community.progress.com/s/article/LoadMaster-Vulnerabilities-CVE-2025-13444-CVE-2025-13447, and https://community.progress.com/s/article/MOVEit-WAF-Vulnerabilities-CVE-2025-13444-CVE-2025-13447.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-2346
Vulnerability Data
OS Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in API in Progress LoadMaster allows an authenticated attacker with “User Administration” permissions to execute arbitrary commands on the LoadMaster appliance by exploiting unsanitized input in the API input parameters
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Control response
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing or incorrect command sanitization during development.
Input validation directly neutralizes or rejects special characters that would otherwise alter OS command structure.
Least privilege reduces the permissions available to any process that could be subverted by injected commands.
Least functionality restricts available OS commands and interpreters, limiting the blast radius of injection.
Secure engineering principles require proper neutralization of untrusted input before command construction.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
PR.PS-06's SDLC practices directly require secure coding and input handling that blocks command-injection defects, yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors and verification gaps unaddressed.
Routine patching/maintenance can remediate known command-injection CVEs in dependencies (partial forward) but does nothing to stop developers from introducing improper neutralization in custom code (none reverse).
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing and code review target insecure use of operating-system command interfaces, catching command-injection flaws introduced during development.