CVE-2025-55116

BMC Control-M/Agent buffer overflow local privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 9.3 Critical
Published: Sep 16, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Aug 7, 2025

Description

A buffer overflow 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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	9.3 Critical	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	airbus
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	airbus

Weaknesses

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Control-M/AgentBMC	9.0.21Not affected 9.0.20.100Not affected 9.0.20Affected 9.0.19Affected 9.0.18Affected

References

https://bmcapps.my.site.com/casemgmt/sc_KnowledgeArticle?sfdcid=000442099vendor-advisory
https://bmcapps.my.site.com/casemgmt/sc_KnowledgeArticle?sfdcid=000441969mitigation

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