CVE-2025-12690: Local Privilege Escalation in NGFW Engine

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-03-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-250

Description

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.

Affected products

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 — fixed in 6.10.20, 7.1.11, 7.2.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall 6.10.20, 7.1.11, 7.2.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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