CVE-2025-57699 – Western Digital Kitfox for Windows Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-57699 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Aug. 22, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description 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.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3 AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-428
    Added Reference https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN75211379/
    Added Reference https://www.westerndigital.com/support/product-security/wdc-25004-western-digital-kitfox-software-version-1-1-1-1
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