Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-27688

High

Published: 18 March 2025

Published
18 March 2025
Modified
01 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0008 24.2th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-27688 is an improper permissions vulnerability (CWE-732) affecting Dell ThinOS versions 2408 and prior. Published on 2025-03-18, the issue has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts from a local attack.

A low-privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges on the affected system.

Dell has published Security Advisory DSA-2025-107 with further details and mitigation guidance at https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000289886/dsa-2025-107.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-732

Affected Products

dell
thinos
≤ 2408

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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Why these techniques?

The CVE describes a local improper permissions vulnerability that enables a low-privileged attacker to escalate privileges on the system, directly mapping to exploitation for privilege escalation.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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