CVE-2025-538417.8HighCWE-829

CVE-2025-53841: Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent vulnerability

Akamai · Guardicore Platform Agent

Vendor fix available · Affected: Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

0.2%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

4th percentile

050100

Higher than 4% of scored CVEs

7.8HighCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

The GC-AGENTS-SERVICE running as part of Akamai´s Guardicore Platform Agent for Windows versions prior to v49.20.1, v50.15.0, v51.12.0, v52.2.0 is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The service will attempt to read an OpenSSL configuration file from a non-existent location that standard Windows users have default write access to. This allows an unprivileged local user to create a crafted "openssl.cnf" file in that location and, by specifying the path to a custom DLL file in a custom OpenSSL engine definition, execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Guardicore Agent process. Since Guardicore Agent runs with SYSTEM privileges, this permits an unprivileged user to fully elevate privileges to SYSTEM level in this manner.

Affected products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

Akamai · Guardicore Platform Agentbefore 50.15.0; from 51 before 51.12.0; from 52 before 52.1.1

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Exploitation: Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere · Supply Chain and Malicious Code
Vendor: Akamai
Published: December 2025
Band: Unlikely (under 1%), December 2025

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