Forcepoint NGFW Engine up to 6.10.19/7.1.10/7.2.4/7.3.0 unnecessary privileges

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Forcepoint NGFW Engine up to 6.10.19/7.1.10/7.2.4/7.3.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation results in unnecessary privileges. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-12690. Attacking locally is a requirement. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Forcepoint NGFW Engine up to 6.10.19/7.1.10/7.2.4/7.3.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unnecessary privileges vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-250. The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was published by Francesco Caserta, Andrea Lomuscio and Alessandro Ruggieri. The advisory is available at support.forcepoint.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-12690 since 11/04/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/14/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Forcepoint

Name

• NGFW Engine

Version

• 6.10.0
• 6.10.1
• 6.10.2
• 6.10.3
• 6.10.4
• 6.10.5
• 6.10.6
• 6.10.7
• 6.10.8
• 6.10.9
• 6.10.10
• 6.10.11
• 6.10.12
• 6.10.13
• 6.10.14
• 6.10.15
• 6.10.16
• 6.10.17
• 6.10.18
• 6.10.19
• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.1.0
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.2
• 7.1.3
• 7.1.4
• 7.1.5
• 7.1.6
• 7.1.7
• 7.1.8
• 7.1.9
• 7.1.10
• 7.2
• 7.2.0
• 7.2.1
• 7.2.2
• 7.2.3
• 7.2.4
• 7.3.0

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