CVE-2025-8875 — N-able N-Central Insecure Deserialization Vulnerability

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in N-able N-central allows Local Execution of Code.This issue affects N-central: before 2025.3.1.

01What is this vulnerability?

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in N-able N-central allows Local Execution of Code.This issue affects N-central: before 2025.3.1.

02Affected products

03Active exploitation status

Yes — actively exploited. Added to the CISA KEV catalog on 2025-08-13. Ransomware use: Unknown.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2025-08-14T14:56:11.884Z
• Last modified: 2025-10-21T22:45:20.745Z
• Added to CISA KEV: 2025-08-13
• BOD 22-01 due: 2025-08-20

09References

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