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Status published
High
CVE-2025-12690
Local Privilege Escalation in NGFW Engine
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:
- Francesco Caserta, Andrea Lomuscio and Alessandro Ruggieri of the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency
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Affected Vendor
Forcepoint
View all reports →Affected Software
NGFW Engine
Vulnerable Versions:
0
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 11th, 2026
Last Modified:
March 11th, 2026
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026