CVE-2025-15316

Medium

Published: 09 February 2026

Published

09 February 2026

Modified

09 March 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0003 7.9th percentile

Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-15316 is a medium-severity Argument Injection (CWE-88) vulnerability in Tanium Module Server. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 7.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068).

Threat & Defense Details

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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Why these techniques?

Direct local privilege escalation vulnerability enabling T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation from an already-privileged local account.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

Tanium addressed a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Tanium Server.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-15316 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Tanium Server. Tanium addressed the issue, which is classified under CWE-88 and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.7 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The vulnerability was published on 2026-02-09.

An attacker with local access and existing high privileges (PR:H) on the affected system can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation enables high-impact consequences, including unauthorized access to confidential data (C:H), modification of system integrity (I:H), and disruption of availability (A:H), effectively allowing full privilege escalation from the attacker's privileged position.

Tanium's security advisory TAN-2025-011 at https://security.tanium.com/TAN-2025-011 provides details on mitigation and patching instructions for the vulnerability.