CVE-2025-40886 Authenticated SQL Injection on Alert functionality in Guardian/CMC before 25.2.0

What is CVE-2025-40886?

CVE-2025-40886 is a high-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 Alert functionality due to improper validation of an input parameter. An authenticated user with limited privileges can execute arbitrary SQL statements on the DBMS used by the web application, potentially exposing unauthorized data, altering their structure and content, and/or affecting their availability.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-40886?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Nozominetworks Cmc, Nozominetworks Guardian.

How do I fix CVE-2025-40886?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-40886 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-2025-40886 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40886 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-4m47-g7jr-gpqv.