CVE-2025-53841

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Summary

CVECVE-2025-53841
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2025-12-03 15:15:51 UTC
Updated2026-10-18 17:10:00 UTC
DescriptionThe GC-AGENTS-SERVICE running as part of Akamai´s Guardicore Platform Agent for Windows versions prior to v49.20.1, v50.15.0, v51.12.0, v52.2.0 is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The service will attempt to read an OpenSSL configuration file from a non-existent location that standard Windows users have default write access to. This allows an unprivileged local user to create a crafted "openssl.cnf" file in that location and, by specifying the path to a custom DLL file in a custom OpenSSL engine definition, execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Guardicore Agent process. Since Guardicore Agent runs with SYSTEM privileges, this permits an unprivileged user to fully elevate privileges to SYSTEM level in this manner.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.8 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.001510000 probability, percentile 0.038920000 (date 2026-10-18)

Problem Types: CWE-829 | CWE-829 CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1CNADECLARED7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent affected 50.15.0 custom Not specified
CNA Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent affected 51 51.12.0 custom Not specified
CNA Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent affected 52 52.1.1 custom Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.tuv.com/landingpage/en/vulnerability-disclosure [email protected] www.tuv.com
techdocs.akamai.com/guardicore-platform-agent/changelog [email protected] techdocs.akamai.com
community.akamai.com/customers/s/article/Windows-Agent-Vulnerability-Summary-and-R... [email protected] community.akamai.com
www.akamai.com/blog/security/advisory-cve-2025-53841-guardicore-local-privil... [email protected] www.akamai.com
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