# CVE-2025-59106: Web Server Running with Root Privileges in dormakaba access manager

> The web server runs with root privileges, allowing attackers who achieve code execution to gain highest system privileges.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 26 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 27 Jan 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pmpq-66cp-597x

## What is CVE-2025-59106?

CVE-2025-59106 is a high-severity vulnerability in dormakaba Access Manager 92xx-k7, published on 26 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The binary serving the web server and executing basically all actions launched from the Web UI is running with root privileges. This is against the least privilege principle. If an attacker is able to execute code on the system via other vulnerabilities it is possible to directly execute commands with highest privileges.

Weakness: CWE-272 (Least Privilege Violation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-59106?

It affects 6 products.


Products: Dormakabagroup Dormakaba Access Manager 9200-K5 Firmware, Dormakabagroup Dormakaba Access Manager 9200-K7 Firmware, Dormakabagroup Dormakaba Access Manager 9230-K5 Firmware, Dormakabagroup Dormakaba Access Manager 9230-K7 Firmware, Dormakabagroup Dormakaba Access Manager 9290-K5 Firmware, Dormakabagroup Dormakaba Access Manager 9290-K7 Firmware.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-59106?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-59106 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-59106 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-59106 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-59106 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-59106 is a high-severity vulnerability in dormakaba Access Manager 92xx-k7, published on 26 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-59106 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: dormakaba Access Manager 92xx-k7. 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-2025-59106/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-59106/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59106
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59106
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59106

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-59106/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.