CVE-2025-10231

N-central Incorrect Default Permissions could lead to Privilege Escalation

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.0
EPSS: EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 3 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-09-10
Updated: 2026-02-26
Assigner: N-able
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

An Incorrect File Handling Permission bug exists on the N-central Windows Agent and Probe that, in the right circumstances, can allow a local low-level user to run commands with elevated permissions.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	N-able
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · a5532a13-c4dd-4202-bef1-e0b8f2f8d12b (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-276

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-27561
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-10231

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:n-able:n-central:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 2025.3

Affected products

Product	Versions
N-able · N-central	affected 0 < 2025.3

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD