CVE-2025-13940 | THREATINT

Description

An Expected Behavior Violation [CWE-440] vulnerability in WatchGuard Fireware OS may allow an attacker to bypass the Fireware OS boot time system integrity check and prevent the Firebox from shutting down in the event of a system integrity check failure. The on-demand system integrity check in the Fireware Web UI will correctly show a failed system integrity check message in the event of a failure.This issue affects Fireware OS: from 12.8.1 through 12.11.4, from 2025.1 through 2025.1.2.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-03 | Published 2025-12-04 | Updated 2025-12-05 | Assigner WatchGuard

MEDIUM: 6.7CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-440: Expected Behavior Violation

Product status

Default status

unaffected

12.8.1 (semver)

affected

2025.1 (semver)

affected

References

www.watchguard.com/wgrd-psirt/advisory/wgsa-2025-00026

cve.org (CVE-2025-13940)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-13940)