CVE-2025-1547 WatchGuard Firebox Authenticated Stack Overflow in Certificate Request Command

What is CVE-2025-1547?

CVE-2025-1547 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Watchguard Fireware, published on 4 Dec 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability [CWE-121] in WatchGuard Fireware OS's certificate request command could allow an authenticated privileged user to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted CLI commands.

Weakness: CWE-121

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1547?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Watchguard Fireware.

How do I fix CVE-2025-1547?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1547 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2025-1547 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1547 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Watchguard Fireware

• CVE-2022-26318 WatchGuard Firebox and XTM Appliances Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-14733 WatchGuard Firebox Out of Bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.3
• CVE-2025-9242 WatchGuard Firebox Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.3
• CVE-2022-23176 WatchGuard Firebox and XTM Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-31789 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8

All Watchguard Fireware vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-cx46-cw26-h8h6.