CVE-2025-7073 (GCVE-0-2025-7073)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-10 09:46 – Updated: 2025-12-11 04:55
VLAI?
Summary
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Bitdefender Total Security 27.0.46.231 allows low-privileged attackers to elevate privileges. The issue arises from bdservicehost.exe deleting files from a user-writable directory (C:\ProgramData\Atc\Feedback) without proper symbolic link validation, enabling arbitrary file deletion. This issue is chained with a file copy operation during network events and a filter driver bypass via DLL injection to achieve arbitrary file copy and code execution as elevated user.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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| Bitdefender | Total Security |
Affected:
0 , < 27.10.45.497
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Credits
Filip Dragovic (@filip_dragovic)
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