BrightSign Players Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

published 2025-05-07 18 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-13932

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits: 0; none known

BrightSign players running BrightSign OS series 4 prior to v8.5.53.1 or series 5 prior to v9.0.166 contain an execution with unnecessary privileges vulnerability, allowing for privilege escalation on the device once code execution has been obtained.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

BrightSign BrightSign OS series 4 players v8.5.53.1
BrightSign BrightSign OS series 5 players v9.0.166

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-25-126-03 updated 2026-01-29 cvss 7.8

BrightSign Players (Update A)

BrightSign OS series 4 players <v8.5.53.1 BrightSign OS series 5 players <v9.0.166
affected: mitigation “For more information, please contact BrightSign via their website.” cve.org

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-05-08)

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA	4.0	8.5	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA	4.0	8.5	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

BrightSign BrightSign OS series 4 players
BrightSign BrightSign OS series 5 players

Classification

Weakness

CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-3925
NVD CVE-2025-3925

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Summary