CVE-2025-65117: Aveva Process Optimization

High severity, CVSS 7.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vulnerability, if exploited, could allow an authenticated miscreant (Process Optimization Designer User) to embed OLE objects into graphics, and escalate their privileges to the identity of a victim user who subsequently interacts with the graphical elements.

Affected products

• Aveva Process Optimization: before 2025 (fixed in 2025)

Published 2026-01-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.