CVE-2025-55116 BMC Control-M/Agent buffer overflow local privilege escalation
A local buffer overflow in BMC Control-M/Agent allows attackers with system access to escalate privileges, affecting unsupported versions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-55116?
CVE-2025-55116 is a critical memory corruption 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 buffer overflow 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.
Weakness: CWE-121
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-55116?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Bmc Control-M\/Agent.
How do I fix CVE-2025-55116?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-55116 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2025-55116 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-55116 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in BMC Control-M/Agent
- CVE-2025-55109 BMC Control-M/Agent default SSL/TLS configuration authenticated bypass
- CVE-2025-55113 BMC Control-M/Agent unescaped NULL byte in access control list checks
- CVE-2025-55115 BMC Control-M/Agent path traversal local privilege escalation
- CVE-2025-55112 BMC Control-M/Agent hardcoded Blowfish keys
- CVE-2025-55117 BMC Control-M/Agent buffer overflow in SSL/TLS communication
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j8qm-x36w-63v9.