CVE-2025-12490

highpriority · track · 6EPSS 0.170 · 97 %ileDEEU

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

17.0% (97th) EPSS

CVSS 8.8 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Netgate pfSense CE Suricata Path Traversal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files on affected installations of Netgate pfSense. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the Suricata package. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied path prior to using it in file operations. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to create files in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-28085.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.comexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Netgate pfSense Snortall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:netgate:pfsense:snort
Netgate pfSense Suricataall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:netgate:pfsense:suricata
Netgate pfSense≤ pfSense 2.8.1, Suricata package 7.0.8_3enisa_euvdEU

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-2454Netgate pfSense (Suricata und Snort): Schwachstelle ermöglicht Codeausführung.Deutsch2025-10-30csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Netgate pfSense (Suricata und Snort) ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-11-06modified 2026-06-17

references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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