How severe is CVE-2025-8876?

CVE-2025-8876 has a CVSS 4.0 base score of 9.4 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2025-8876: Command Injection

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

N-able N-Central Command Injection Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2025-08-13

Remediation due

2025-08-20

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
https://status.n-able.com/2025/08/13/announcing-the-ga-of-n-central-2025-3-1/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8876

Description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in N-able N-central allows OS Command Injection.This issue affects N-central: before 2025.3.1.

Severity

CVSS 4.0 · CNA9.4 CRITICAL

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
N-able	N-central	0 to <2025.3.1

References

1 Links

Other references

https://status.n-able.com/2025/08/13/announcing-the-ga-of-n-central-2025-3-1/

Record Details

Published

2025-08-14

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

N-able

Credited to

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