FKIE_CVE-2025-57699

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-22 07:15 - Updated: 2025-08-22 18:08
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
vultures@jpcert.or.jphttps://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN75211379/
vultures@jpcert.or.jphttps://www.westerndigital.com/support/product-security/wdc-25004-western-digital-kitfox-software-version-1-1-1-1
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      "value": "Western Digital Kitfox para Windows, proporcionado por Western Digital Corporation, registra un servicio de Windows con una ruta de archivo sin comillas. Un usuario con permiso de escritura en el directorio ra\u00edz de la unidad del sistema puede ejecutar c\u00f3digo arbitrario con el privilegio SYSTEM."
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  "lastModified": "2025-08-22T18:08:51.663",
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