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3 vulnerabilities by Western Digital Corporation
CVE-2025-57699 (GCVE-0-2025-57699)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-08-22 06:37 – Updated: 2025-08-22 10:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-428 - Unquoted search path or element
Assigner
References
2 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Digital Corporation | Western Digital Kitfox for Windows |
Affected:
prior to 1.1.1.1
|
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CVE-2025-57699 (GCVE-0-2025-57699)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 06:37 – Updated: 2025-08-22 10:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-428 - Unquoted search path or element
Assigner
References
2 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Digital Corporation | Western Digital Kitfox for Windows |
Affected:
prior to 1.1.1.1
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JVNDB-2025-000063
Vulnerability from jvndb - Published: 2025-08-22 13:37 - Updated:2025-08-22 13:37
Severity
Summary
Western Digital Kitfox registers a Windows service with an unquoted file path
Details
Western Digital Kitfox for Windows provided by Western Digital Corporation contains the following vulnerability.
- Unquoted search path or element (CWE-428) - CVE-2025-57699
References
| Type | URL | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | |
|---|---|---|
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