CVE-2025-9711 Privilege escalation in Brocade Fabric OS before 9.2.1c3, and 9.2.2 though 9.2.2b

What is CVE-2025-9711?

CVE-2025-9711 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 3 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in Brocade Fabric OS before 9.2.1c3 could allow elevating the privileges of the local authenticated user to “root” using the export option of seccertmgmt and seccryptocfg commands.

Weakness: CWE-272

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9711?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Broadcom Fabric Operating System.

How do I fix CVE-2025-9711?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-9711 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-9711 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9711 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Broadcom Fabric Operating System

• CVE-2025-1976 Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection Exploited High 8.6
• CVE-2021-22555 Linux Kernel Heap Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.3
• CVE-2022-33186 Command injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27797 Hardcoded credentials in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-15371 Code injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8

All Broadcom Fabric Operating System vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-j8ph-9c6m-2f5w.