CVE-2025-40885 Authenticated SQL Injection on Smart Polling functionality in Guardian/CMC before 25.2.0

What is CVE-2025-40885?

CVE-2025-40885 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Nozomi Networks CMC, published on 7 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A SQL Injection vulnerability was discovered in the Smart Polling functionality due to improper validation of an input parameter. An authenticated user with limited privileges can execute arbitrary SELECT SQL statements on the DBMS used by the web application, potentially exposing unauthorized data.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-40885?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Nozominetworks Cmc, Nozominetworks Guardian.

How do I fix CVE-2025-40885?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-40885 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.

Is CVE-2025-40885 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40885 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Nozomi Networks CMC

• CVE-2023-29245 SQL Injection on IDS parsing of malformed asset fields in Guardian/CMC >= 22.6.0 before 22.6.3 and 23.1.0 Critical 9.2
• CVE-2026-31984 DoS through oversized audit log entries in Guardian/CMC before 26.2.0 High 8.7
• CVE-2023-2567 Authenticated SQL Injection on Query functionality in Guardian/CMC before 22.6.3 and 23.1.0 High 8.7
• CVE-2023-22378 Authenticated Blind SQL Injection on sorting in Guardian/CMC before 22.6.2 High 8.7
• CVE-2023-23574 Authenticated Blind SQL Injection on alerts count in Guardian/CMC before 22.6.2 High 8.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r66w-7j7v-vrgc.