CVE-2025-57699

Published: Aug 22, 2025

Modified: Aug 22, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

6.7

MEDIUM

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Western Digital Corporation	Western Digital Kitfox for Windows	affected `prior to 1.1.1.1`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-428

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

https://www.westerndigital.com/support/product-security/wdc-25004-western-digital-kitfox-software-version-1-1-1-1

https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN75211379/

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CVE-2025-57699

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.0 Details

References