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CVE-2025-0543

Local privilege escalation in G DATA Security Client due to incorrect assignment of privileges to directories.

HIGH 8.5EPSS 0.15%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.15%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Local privilege escalation in G DATA Security Client due to incorrect assignment of privileges to directories. This vulnerability allows a local, unprivileged attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations by placing an arbitrary executable in a globally writable directory resulting in execution by the SetupSVC.exe service in the context of SYSTEM.

CVSS 4.0: 8.5 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/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/M
EPSS: 0.15% probability · 4th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-276
Source: a341c0d1-ebf7-493f-a84e-38cf86618674

References

https://github.com/nullby73/security-advisories/tree/main/CVE-2025-0543

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.