High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Jul 2, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2025-27021
CVE-2025-27021
Description
The misconfiguration in the sudoers configuration of the operating system in Infinera G42 version R6.1.3 allows low privileged OS users to read/write physical memory via devmem command line tool. This could allow sensitive information disclosure, denial of service, and privilege escalation by tampering with kernel memory.
Details: The output of "sudo -l" reports the presence of "devmem" command executable as super user without using a password. This command allows to read and write an arbitrary memory area of the target device, specifying an absolute address.
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References
2- euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-27021nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.cvcn.gov.it/cvcn/cve/CVE-2025-27021nvdThird Party Advisory
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