CVE-2025-12690 PUBLISHED

Local Privilege Escalation in NGFW Engine

Assigner: forcepoint
Reserved: 04.11.2025 Published: 11.03.2026 Updated: 11.03.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.3

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Local	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	Present	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	Forcepoint
Product	NGFW Engine
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 6.10.19 (incl.) affected from 0 to 7.3.0 (incl.) affected from 0 to 7.2.4 (incl.) affected from 0 to 7.1.10 (incl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to versions 6.10.20, 7.1.11, 7.2.5 and 7.3.1.

Credits

Francesco Caserta, Andrea Lomuscio and Alessandro Ruggieri of the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency finder

References

https://support.forcepoint.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Local-Privilege-Escalation-in-NGFW-Engine

Problem Types

CWE-250 Execution with unnecessary privileges CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation
CAPEC-122 Privilege Abuse