CVE-2025-12485 Privilege escalation in Server
Low-privileged users can impersonate other accounts by replaying pre-MFA cookies, leading to privilege escalation and account takeover.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-12485?
CVE-2025-12485 is a high-severity vulnerability in Devolutions Devolutions Server, published on 6 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Improper privilege management during pre-MFA cookie handling in Devolutions Server allows a low-privileged authenticated user to impersonate another account by replaying the pre-MFA cookie.This does not bypass the target account MFA verification step.
This issue affects the following versions :
* Devolutions Server 2025.3.2.0 through 2025.3.5.0 *
Devolutions Server 2025.2.15.0 and earlier
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12485?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Devolutions Devolutions Server.
How do I fix CVE-2025-12485?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12485 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-12485 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12485 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Devolutions Devolutions Server
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qj6m-vqpr-wffx.