Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-69276

HighRCE

Published: 12 January 2026

Published
12 January 2026
Modified
14 January 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0037 58.8th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-69276 is a high-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability in Broadcom Dx Netops Spectrum. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 41.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.
Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

prevent

Directly remediates the deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability by applying vendor-provided patches for affected DX NetOps Spectrum versions.

prevent

Validates untrusted input data prior to deserialization to prevent object injection attacks exploiting CWE-502.

prevent

Provides memory protections such as DEP and ASLR to mitigate exploitation consequences like arbitrary code execution from deserialization flaws.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
Why these techniques?

Deserialization vulnerability enables low-privileged remote attackers to perform object injection leading to arbitrary code execution, directly facilitating Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) and Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

NVD Description

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Broadcom DX NetOps Spectrum on Windows, Linux allows Object Injection.This issue affects DX NetOps Spectrum: 24.3.13 and earlier.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-69276 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in Broadcom DX NetOps Spectrum on Windows and Linux platforms. The flaw allows Object Injection and affects DX NetOps Spectrum versions 24.3.13 and earlier. Published on 2026-01-12, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), reflecting its high severity due to network accessibility and potential for significant impacts.

Attackers with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). Successful exploitation enables high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H), allowing object injection that could lead to arbitrary code execution or other severe compromises within the affected Spectrum instance.

The Broadcom security advisory at https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36756 provides details on mitigation strategies and available patches.

Details

CWE(s)

Affected Products

broadcom
dx netops spectrum
≤ 25.4.1

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