Local privilege escalation via weak container isolation
Published Aug 12, 2025 · Updated Aug 12, 2025
Privilege escalation in Siemens SINEC Traffic Analyzer before 3.0 allows local users to access sensitive host system resources. The application runs Docker containers without adequate security controls to enforce isolation between those containers and the host. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and high-complexity conditions, and successful exploitation grants elevated access to sensitive host resources.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Siemens SINEC Traffic Analyzer before 3.0 allows local users to access sensitive host system resources. The application runs Docker containers without adequate security controls to enforce isolation between those containers and the host. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and high-complexity conditions, and successful exploitation grants elevated access to sensitive host resources.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-40767
- Published
- Aug 12, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 12, 2025
- Vendor
- Siemens
- Product
- SINEC Traffic Analyzer
- Classifications
- CWE-250, T1611
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 12, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 12, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <V3.0
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