{"id":76101,"date":"2025-09-23T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:37:13","slug":"cve-2025-55116-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-leading-to-privilege-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-55116-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-leading-to-privilege-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-55116: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Leading to Privilege Escalation<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity threats are continually evolving, and one such threat that has been identified recently is the CVE-2025-55116 vulnerability. This security flaw is a buffer overflow vulnerability found in the Control-M\/Agent, which can lead to a local privilege escalation if an attacker gains access to the system running the Agent. This vulnerability is significant as it can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-9253-stack-based-buffer-overflow-on-linksys-wi-fi-range-extenders-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"84164\">potentially compromise the entire system or lead<\/a> to data leakage. Given the severity of the potential impact, it&#8217;s essential to understand the nature of this vulnerability, its effects, and the mitigation measures available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-55116<br \/>\nSeverity: High (CVSS: 8.8)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Local<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: Low<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-9791-critical-vulnerability-in-tenda-ac20-16-03-08-05-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"84947\">Potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1388567080\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>Control-M\/Agent | 9.0.18 to 9.0.20 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-30325-integer-overflow-vulnerability-in-photoshop-desktop-versions-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"91627\">potentially earlier unsupported versions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-54493-critical-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-the-biosig-project-libbiosig-3-9-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"83400\">vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow<\/a> in the Control-M\/Agent. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-54491-critical-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-the-biosig-project-libbiosig-3-9-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"83440\">buffer overflow<\/a> occurs when more data is put into a buffer or holding area than the buffer can handle. This over-run of data can overwrite other data values or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-57771-arbitrary-command-execution-vulnerability-in-roo-code-ai\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"84841\">execute malicious commands<\/a>. In this case, an attacker with access to the system running the Agent can exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges within the system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-7775-critical-memory-overflow-vulnerability-in-netscaler-adc-and-gateway-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"83697\">potentially gaining full control over the affected system or leading<\/a> to data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-730376135\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>The following is a conceptual representation of how the vulnerability might be exploited. This is not a working example but meant to illustrate the potential exploit.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">$ .\/controlm_agent -buffer_overflow `perl -e &#039;print &quot;A&quot;x1024&#039;`<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the command is running the Control-M\/Agent with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-54486-critical-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-the-biosig-project-libbiosig-3-9-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"83453\">buffer_overflow<\/a> option followed by a string of &#8220;A&#8221; characters that is longer than what the buffer can handle, potentially leading to a buffer overflow and privilege escalation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is recommended to apply the vendor patch to mitigate this vulnerability. If the patch cannot be applied immediately, a temporary mitigation strategy can be the use of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to detect and prevent exploitation of this vulnerability. However, these are not long-term solutions and the vendor patch should be applied as soon as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-54742-data-deserialization-vulnerability-in-wpevently-leading-to-possible-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"86373\">possible to fully secure the system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Cybersecurity threats are continually evolving, and one such threat that has been identified recently is the CVE-2025-55116 vulnerability. This security flaw is a buffer overflow vulnerability found in the Control-M\/Agent, which can lead to a local privilege escalation if an attacker gains access to the system running the Agent. This vulnerability is significant as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[86,76],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-76101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","attack_vector-buffer-overflow","attack_vector-privilege-escalation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76101"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84796,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76101\/revisions\/84796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76101"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=76101"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=76101"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=76101"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=76101"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=76101"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=76101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}