CVE-2025-1547

WatchGuard Firebox Authenticated Stack Overflow in Certificate Request Command

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.35 % · percentile 29 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-12-04
Updated: 2026-08-10
Assigner: WatchGuard
NVD status: Modified

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability [CWE-121] in WatchGuard Fireware OS's certificate request command could allow an authenticated privileged user to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted CLI commands.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 4.0	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	WatchGuard
CVSS 4.0	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X	NVD · 5d1c2695-1a31-4499-88ae-e847036fd7e3 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-121

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-201291
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-1547

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:watchguard:fireware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 12.0.0 < 12.11.3
cpe:2.3:o:watchguard:fireware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 12.5 < 12.5.13

Affected products

Product	Versions
WatchGuard · Fireware OS	affected 12.0 ≤ 12.11.3
WatchGuard · Fireware OS	affected 12.0 < 12.5.13

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