CVE-2025-32919 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-32919

Privilege Escalation in Windows License plugin for Checkmk Windows Agent

Vulnerability Description

Use of an insecure temporary directory in the Windows License plugin for the Checkmk Windows Agent allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Checkmk: from 2.4.0 before 2.4.0p13, from 2.3.0 before 2.3.0p38, from 2.2.0 before 2.2.0p46, and all versions of 2.1.0 (EOL).

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:

  • Lisa Gnedt (SBA Research)

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Affected Vendor

Checkmk GmbH

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Affected Software

Checkmk
Vulnerable Versions:
2.4.0, 2.3.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 9th, 2025
Last Modified: November 3rd, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-427

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Persistence
T1574.001 DLL Search Order Hijacking
Privilege Escalation
T1547 Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
Persistence
T1036 Masquerading
Defense Evasion
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution