High 7.3Published Mar 11, 2026

CVE-2025-12690Local Privilege Escalation in NGFW Engine

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 8:50 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 7.3 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)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
Weakness (CWE): CWE-250
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: forcepoint
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Mar 11, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Forcepoint NGFW Engine forcepoint:ngfw_engine (from the name)	through 6.10.19; through 7.3.0; through 7.2.4; through 7.1.10	CNA record
forcepoint next_generation_firewall forcepoint:next_generation_firewall	before 6.10.20; from 7.1.0 before 7.1.11; from 7.2.0 before 7.2.5; 7.3.0	NVD

References

References

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

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