CVE-2025-9043 (GCVE-0-2025-9043)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-14 16:27 – Updated: 2025-08-21 14:16
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The service executable path in Seagate Toolkit on Versions prior to 2.34.0.33 on Windows allows an attacker with Admin privileges to exploit a vulnerability as classified under CWE-428: Unquoted Search Path or Element. An attacker with write permissions to the root could place a malicious Program.exe file, which would execute with SYSTEM privileges.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-14 18:42 UTC
CWE
- CWE-428 - Unquoted Search Path or Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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