CVE-2025-55115 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2025-55115

BMC Control-M/Agent path traversal local privilege escalation

Vulnerability Description

A path traversal 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. This vulnerability was fixed in 9.0.20.100 and above.

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:

  • Airbus SAS - Jean-Romain Garnier - seclab@airbus.com

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Control-M/Agent
Vulnerable Versions:
9.0.21, 9.0.20.100, 9.0.20, 9.0.19, 9.0.18

Timeline

Official Publish: September 16th, 2025
Last Modified: February 26th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-23

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection
T1552 Unsecured Credentials
Credential Access
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
Command and Control
T1565 Data Manipulation
Impact