CVE-2025-6298 (GCVE-0-2025-6298)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-11 06:56 – Updated: 2025-11-12 04:57
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Summary
ACAP applications can gain elevated privileges due to improper input validation, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability can only be exploited if the Axis device is configured to allow the installation of unsigned ACAP applications, and if an attacker convinces the victim to install a malicious ACAP application.
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1287 - Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Axis Communications AB AXIS OS Affected: 12.0.0 , < 12.6.28 (semver)
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Credits
Keanesec
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