CVE-2025-55116 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2025-55116

BMC Control-M/Agent buffer overflow local privilege escalation

Vulnerability 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.

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
  • Airbus SAS - Mathieu Baudon - seclab@airbus.com

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)