CVE-2025-47420 User Permissions on Network API
High 8.7
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-47420 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2025-47420 is a high-severity vulnerability in Crestron Automate VX, published on 6 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-47420 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Crestron Automate VX. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-47420/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-47420/index.md)
Attackers can escalate privileges via the Network API in Crestron Automate VX, requiring a vendor patch.
- 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-2025-47420?
CVE-2025-47420 is a high-severity vulnerability in Crestron Automate VX, published on 6 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
266 vulnerability in Crestron Automate VX allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Automate VX: from 5.6.8161.21536 through 6.4.0.49.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-47420?
How do I fix CVE-2025-47420?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-47420 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-47420 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-47420 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5cr4-86qx-f59h.