CVE-2025-57699 (GCVE-0-2025-57699)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-22 06:37
Modified
2025-08-22 10:48
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.4 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.4 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-428 - Unquoted search path or element
Summary
Western Digital Kitfox for Windows provided by Western Digital Corporation registers a Windows service with an unquoted file path.
A user with the write permission on the root directory of the system drive may execute arbitrary code with the SYSTEM privilege.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Digital Corporation | Western Digital Kitfox for Windows |
Version: prior to 1.1.1.1 |
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