CVE-2025-1976 is a critical vulnerability affecting Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS versions 9.1.0 through 9.1.1d6, allowing a local administrator to execute arbitrary code with full root privileges despite root access being removed in these versions. With a CVSS score of 6.7 (MEDIUM), this vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring high privileges but low attack complexity. Notably, CISA has added this CVE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, indicating active exploitation in the wild, although public exploit intelligence tools like Metasploit and ExploitDB do not yet list specific exploits. The vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, underscoring its importance.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 9.1.0, < 9.1.1d7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:broadcom:fabric_operating_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.