3.5

CVE-2025-27238: zabbix Improper Access Control

CVSS: 3.5v3.1LowAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-27238DEBIAN-CVE-2025-27238
Published 12-09-2025Last modified 15-09-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-27238 is a low (CVSS 3.5) Improper Access Control vulnerability in zabbix. EPSS estimates a 0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
14/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
3.5/10
010
Low · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.19%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 12-09-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-09-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Due to a bug in Zabbix API, the hostprototype.get method lists all host prototypes to users that do not have any user groups assigned to them.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.19%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

8%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.19% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.19%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • zabbix< 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1 | < 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • zabbixAll versions (No fix recorded)
Zabbix1 product
  • zabbix≥ 7.0.0, ≤ 7.0.13 | ≥ 7.2.0, ≤ 7.2.7 | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.14 | ≥ 7.2.0, < 7.2.8

3 vendors · 3 products

References

4 links