CVE-2025-43079

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 6 %ileDEEU

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.17% (6th) EPSS

CVSS 6.3 · medium

Is it mine?

13 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

The Qualys Cloud Agent included a bundled uninstall script (qagent_uninstall.sh), specific to Mac and Linux supported versions that invoked multiple system commands without using absolute paths and without sanitizing the $PATH environment. If the uninstall script is executed with elevated privileges (e.g., via sudo) in an environment where $PATH has been manipulated, an attacker with root/sudo privileges could cause malicious executables to be run in place of the intended system binaries. This behavior can be leveraged for local privilege escalation and arbitrary command execution under elevated privileges.

cvss

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

6.3

010

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

v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · bugreport@qualys.comexploitability 0.3 · impact 5.9

v3.15.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

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-426US

affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Qualys Cloud Agent <7.2.3all versionscert_bundDE
Qualys Cloud Agent< 7.2.3cert_bundDE
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent0 → 3.21.1-6enisa_euvdEU
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent0 → 3.31.1-8enisa_euvdEU
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent0 → 4.2.6enisa_euvdEU
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent0 → 5.0.2enisa_euvdEU
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent0 → 5.0.3enisa_euvdEU
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent0 → 6.0.3enisa_euvdEU
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent0 → 6.2.1enisa_euvdEU
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent0 → 6.3.1enisa_euvdEU
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent3.12 → 7.1.0enisa_euvdEU
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent4.17 → 6.0.0enisa_euvdEU
Qualys Inc Qualys Agent5.0 → 7.2.3enisa_euvdEU

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-2574Qualys Cloud Agent: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2025-11-11csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Qualys Cloud Agent ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.

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 2025-11-10modified 2026-06-17

references (3)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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