CVE-2025-57699 (GCVE-0-2025-57699)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 06:37 – Updated: 2025-08-22 10:48
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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.
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
CWE
  • CWE-428 - Unquoted search path or element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Western Digital Corporation Western Digital Kitfox for Windows Affected: prior to 1.1.1.1
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