CVE-2025-12690

Local Privilege Escalation in NGFW Engine

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Mar 11, 2026
Updated: Mar 11, 2026
Reserved: Nov 4, 2025

Description

Execution with unnecessary privileges in Forcepoint NGFW Engine allows local privilege escalation.This issue affects NGFW Engine through 6.10.19, through 7.3.0, through 7.2.4, through 7.1.10.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.3 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	forcepoint

Weaknesses

CWE-250 Execution with unnecessary privileges

Affected Products

Product	Versions
NGFW EngineForcepoint	6.10.19 and earlierAffected 7.3.0 and earlierAffected 7.2.4 and earlierAffected 7.1.10 and earlierAffected

References

https://support.forcepoint.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Local-Privilege-Escalation-in-NGFW-Engine

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