CVE-2025-55117

BMC Control-M/Agent buffer overflow in SSL/TLS communication

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Sep 16, 2025
Updated: Sep 16, 2025
Reserved: Aug 7, 2025

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow can be remotely triggered when formatting an error message in the Control-M/Agent when SSL/TLS communication is configured.

The issue occurs in the following cases:

* Control-M/Agent 9.0.20: SSL/TLS configuration is set to the non-default setting "use_openssl=n"; * Control-M/Agent 9.0.21 and 9.0.22: Agent router configuration uses the non-default settings "JAVA_AR=N" and "use_openssl=n".

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.3 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	airbus
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	airbus

Weaknesses

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Control-M/AgentBMC	9.0.22.000Affected 9.0.21Affected 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=000441972mitigation

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