CVE-2025-0309Netskope Client Local Elevation of Privileges
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 0.19%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 92% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An insufficient validation on the server connection endpoint in Netskope Client allows local users to elevate privileges on the system. The insufficient validation allows Netskope Client to connect to any other server with Public Signed CA TLS certificates and send specially crafted responses to elevate privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Netskope
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NetskopeCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/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 |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 92% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
- affected < 129.0.0
What to do
Solution: Update the Netskope Client to version 129.0.0 or newer
Workaround: There are multiple configurations which can mitigate and reduce potential exposure: * Block connection/access to any new domain or URLs to NS Client apart from goskope.com * Use EDR tools to monitor connections from NS Client to any random domains and block it * Monitor for addition of any self signed certificates in operating system certificate store * Monitor the status of NS Client
References
References2
- https://blog.amberwolf.com/blog/2025/august/breaking-into-your-network-zer0-effort/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://www.netskope.com/company/security-compliance-and-assurance/security-advisories-and-disclosures/netskope-security-advisory-nskpsa-2025-002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-24661 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-0309)Record last updated .