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1 vulnerability by Gen Digital
CVE-2025-3025 (GCVE-0-2025-3025)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 12:20 – Updated: 2025-09-16 03:55
VLAI?
Summary
Elevation of Privileges in the cleaning feature of Gen Digital CCleaner version 6.33.11465 on Windows allows a local user to gain SYSTEM privileges via exploiting insecure file delete operations. Reported in CCleaner v. 6.33.11465. This issue affects CCleaner: before < 6.36.11508.
Severity ?
7.3 (High)
CWE
- CWE-552 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen Digital | CCleaner |
Affected:
6.33.11465 , < < 6.36.11508
(custom)
|
Credits
Dong-uk Kim (@justlikebono)
Trend Micro, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) ZDI-CAN-26474
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