CVE-2025-64729 AVEVA Process Optimization Missing Authorization
An authenticated user can tamper with project files to embed code and escalate privileges to a victim user's identity.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-64729?
CVE-2025-64729 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in AVEVA Process Optimization, published on 16 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow an authenticated miscreant (OS Standard User) to tamper with Process Optimization project files, embed code, and escalate their privileges to the identity of a victim user who subsequently interacts with the project files.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-64729?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Aveva Process Optimization.
How do I fix CVE-2025-64729?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-64729 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-64729 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-64729 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in AVEVA Process Optimization
- CVE-2025-61937 AVEVA Process Optimization Code Injection
- CVE-2025-61943 AVEVA Process Optimization SQL Injection
- CVE-2025-64691 AVEVA Process Optimization Code Injection
- CVE-2025-65118 AVEVA Process Optimization Uncontrolled Search Path Element
- CVE-2025-65117 AVEVA Process Optimization Use of Potentially Dangerous Function
Sources
Also known as GHSA-44gr-3v7x-qv72.