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TI-2025-38100 Aliases CVE-2025-61667

Datadog Linux Host Agent affected by local privilege escalation due to insufficient pycache permissions

Priority LOW 32CWE-276Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Passive
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

The Datadog Agent collects events and metrics from hosts and sends them to Datadog. A vulnerability within the Datadog Linux Host Agent versions 7.65.0 through 7.70.2 exists due to insufficient permissions being set on the `opt/datadog-agent/python-scripts/__pycache__` directory during installation. Code in this directory is only run by the Agent during Agent install/upgrades. This could allow an attacker with local access to modify files in this directory, which would then subsequently be run when the Agent is upgraded, resulting in local privilege escalation. This issue requires local access to the host and a valid low privilege account to be vulnerable. Note that this vulnerability only impacts the Linux Host Agent. Other variations of the Agent including the container, kubernetes, windows host and other agents are not impacted. Version 7.71.0 contains a patch for the issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00116 1st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed datadog-agent (DataDog): 7.71.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
DataDogdatadog-agent7.65.0 to before 7.71.07.71.0Patch availableCNA
  • datadog-agent VendorDataDog Affected 7.65.0 to before 7.71.0 Fixed in 7.71.0 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA datadog-agent (DataDog) Fixed in 7.71.0

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-61667

References

Other 1

  • TI-2026-32833 GuardDog: Blind GitHub URL rewrite in remote project scanning causes SSRF and `GH_TOKEN` exfiltration CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
  • TI-2022-07587 GuardDog vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2026-26107 dd-trace-java: Unsafe deserialization in RMI instrumentation may lead to remote code execution CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2026-81528 ReDoS in dd-trace URL query string obfuscation CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-80927 ReDoS in Datadog dd-trace-py URL query string obfuscation CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2023-20052 import-in-the-middle allows unsanitized user controlled input in module generation CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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