CVE-2025-26817
Published: 03 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-26817 is a critical-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Netwrix Password Secure. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 17.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Netwrix Password Secure version 9.2.0.32454 contains an OS command injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-26817 and assigned CWE-78. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8, reflecting network attackability with low complexity, no required privileges or user interaction, and full impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can supply crafted input that results in arbitrary operating-system command execution on the affected system, enabling complete compromise of the password-management application and its underlying host.
Netwrix has published advisory ADV-2025-009 together with a bug-fix list for the 9.2 release that addresses the issue. The EPSS score rose from a low baseline to a recorded peak of 0.0273, indicating measurable post-disclosure exploitation interest.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-9900
Vulnerability details
Netwrix Password Secure 9.2.0.32454 allows OS command injection.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.