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FKIE_CVE-2025-57699

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-22 07:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:43

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

	URL	Tags
	vultures@jpcert.or.jp	https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN75211379/
	vultures@jpcert.or.jp	https://www.westerndigital.com/support/product-security/wdc-25004-western-digital-kitfox-software-version-1-1-1-1

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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          "product": "Western Digital Kitfox for Windows",
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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": "2026-06-17T09:43:18.030",
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          "timestamp": "2025-08-22T10:48:17.568738Z",
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    },
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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

Summary

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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-22 10:48 UTC

CWE

CWE-428 - Unquoted search path or element

Assigner

jpcert CNA under the jpcert root

CNA scorecard C 64/100 over 178 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.westerndigital.com/support/product-se…
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN75211379/

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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