{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43079 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-43079 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-43079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualys Agent, published on 10 Nov 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-43079 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-43079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualys Agent, published on 10 Nov 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43079 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Qualys Agent. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43079/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43079/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-43079","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43079/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-43079","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-j3gv-x7fr-5wqw"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Qualys Cloud Agent","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Attackers with sudo access can escalate privileges by manipulating PATH to execute malicious binaries via the Qualys Cloud Agent uninstall script.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Qualys","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":6.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-426","name":"Untrusted Search Path"}],"description":"The Qualys Cloud Agent included a bundled uninstall script (qagent_uninstall.sh), specific to Mac and Linux supported versions that invoked multiple system commands without using absolute paths and without sanitizing the $PATH environment. If the uninstall script is executed with elevated privileges (e.g., via sudo) in an environment where $PATH has been manipulated, an attacker with root/sudo privileges could cause malicious executables to be run in place of the intended system binaries. This behavior can be leveraged for local privilege escalation and arbitrary command execution under elevated privileges.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Local Privilege Escalation via qagent_uninstall.sh Qualys Cloud Agents","id":"CVE-2025-43079","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Security feature bypass in macOS","id":"CVE-2025-43184"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Auth bypass in Genetec Security Center","id":"CVE-2025-43027"},"products":["Qualys Agent"],"published":"2025-11-10","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-03-18","vendors":["Qualys Inc"]},"summary":"Attackers with sudo access can escalate privileges by manipulating PATH to execute malicious binaries via the Qualys Cloud Agent uninstall script.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43079/"}