CVE-2025-59373 (GCVE-0-2025-59373)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-25 02:03 – Updated: 2025-11-25 14:36
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Summary
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the restore mechanism of ASUS System Control Interface. It can be triggered when an unprivileged actor copies files without proper validation into protected system paths, potentially leading to arbitrary files being executed as SYSTEM. For more information, please refer to section Security Update for MyASUS in the ASUS Security Advisory.
Severity ?
8.5 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
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Vendor Product Version
ASUS MyASUS Affected: 0 , < 3.1.48.0 (custom)
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