A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Nokia SR Linux

published 2026-06-16 4mo ago modified 2026-10-07 last mo. also EUVD-2025-210165

cvss: 6.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 1%
public exploits: 0; none known

Nokia SR Linux is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an authenticated user to execute arbitrary commands with superuser privilege.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 4mo ago (2026-06-16)

Exploit prediction

0.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
CNA	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Nokia Nokia SR Linux

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

nokia.com /we-are-nokia/security/product-security-advisory/cve-2025-9912/

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-9912
NVD CVE-2025-9912

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