Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-26817

CriticalRCE

Published: 03 April 2025

Published
03 April 2025
Modified
28 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0161 82.2th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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

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

netwrix
password secure
≤ 9.2.1

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.

addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

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