Vulnerability · Published Sep 16, 2025 · Assigned by airbus

CVE-2025-55115BMC Control-M/Agent path traversal local privilege escalation

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Control-M/Agent from BMC. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 7% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 92.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A path traversal in the Control-M/Agent can lead to a local privilege escalation when an attacker has access to the system running the Agent. This vulnerability impacts the out-of-support Control-M/Agent versions 9.0.18 to 9.0.20 and potentially earlier unsupported versions. This vulnerability was fixed in 9.0.20.100 and above.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
BMC Control-M/Agent 9.0.209.0.199.0.18

Weakness: CWE-23 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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