# CVE-2025-55115: BMC Control-M/Agent path traversal local privilege escalation

> A path traversal in BMC Control-M/Agent allows local attackers to escalate privileges on the host system.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3r7q-94c4-jm45

## What is CVE-2025-55115?

CVE-2025-55115 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in BMC Control-M/Agent, published on 16 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A path traversal in the Control-M/Agent can lead to a local privilege escalation when an attacker has access to the system running the Agent. This vulnerability impacts the out-of-support Control-M/Agent versions 9.0.18 to 9.0.20 and potentially earlier unsupported versions. This vulnerability was fixed in 9.0.20.100 and above.

Weakness: CWE-23 (Relative Path Traversal)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-55115?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Bmc Control-M\/Agent.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-55115?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-55115 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-55115 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-55115 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in BMC Control-M/Agent

- [CVE-2025-55109](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55109/): BMC Control-M/Agent default SSL/TLS configuration authenticated bypass (critical 9.5)
- [CVE-2025-55113](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55113/): BMC Control-M/Agent unescaped NULL byte in access control list checks (critical 9.5)
- [CVE-2025-55116](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55116/): BMC Control-M/Agent buffer overflow local privilege escalation (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2025-55112](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55112/): BMC Control-M/Agent hardcoded Blowfish keys (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2025-55117](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55117/): BMC Control-M/Agent buffer overflow in SSL/TLS communication (medium 6.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-55115 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-55115 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in BMC Control-M/Agent, published on 16 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-55115 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: BMC Control-M/Agent. 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-2025-55115/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55115/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-55115
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55115
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-55115

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55115/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.