What is CVE-2025-27024?

CVE-2025-27024 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Infinera G42, classified under Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-07-02.

How severe is CVE-2025-27024?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Infinera G42

CVE-2025-27024

Unrestricted access to OS file system in SFTP service in Infinera G42 version R6.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to read/write OS files via SFTP connections. Details: Account members of the Network Administrator profile can access the target machine via SFTP with the same credentials used for SSH CLI access and are able to read all files according to the OS permission instead of remaining inside the chrooted directory position.

Published 2025-07-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (30.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-06.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 30.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-280 — Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges

References

a6d3dc9e-0591-4a13-bce7-0f5b31ff6158 (Third Party Advisory, government-resource)
a6d3dc9e-0591-4a13-bce7-0f5b31ff6158 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-27024?: CVE-2025-27024 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Infinera G42, classified under Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-07-02.
How severe is CVE-2025-27024?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.