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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-41686

A low-privileged local attacker can exploit improper permissions on nssm.exe to escalate their privileges and gain administrative access.

Published Aug 12, 2025 · catalog updated Aug 12, 2025 · PHOENIX CONTACT DaUM

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-41686. EPSS is 0.13%. Act only if a listed version of PHOENIX CONTACT DaUM is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
High7.8
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.13%
Remediation
Version ranges on file
Affected products
vendor PHOENIX CONTACT DaUM 0.0.0 <2025.3.1

A low-privileged local attacker can exploit improper permissions on nssm.exe to escalate their privileges and gain administrative access.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor PHOENIX CONTACT DaUM 0.0.0 <2025.3.10.0.0 <2025.3.1

How to fix CVE-2025-41686

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-41686. EPSS is 0.13%. Act only if a listed version of PHOENIX CONTACT DaUM is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with PHOENIX CONTACT DaUM 0.0.0 <2025.3.1 0.0.0 <2025.3.1. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.13%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Aug 12, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    A low-privileged local attacker can exploit improper permissions on nssm.exe to escalate their privileges and gain administrative access.

  2. Aug 12, 2025 · EUVD

    Updated

    A low-privileged local attacker can exploit improper permissions on nssm.exe to escalate their privileges and gain administrative access.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-41686

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-41686

    30-day exploitation probability 0.13%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-24230

    A low-privileged local attacker can exploit improper permissions on nssm.exe to escalate their privileges and gain administrative access.

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 23, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.