CVE-2025-4525
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Discord 1.0.9188 on Windows.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.31%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Discord 1.0.9188 on Windows. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality in the library WINSTA.dll. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. The attack needs to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
- CVSS 4.0
- 7.3 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/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
- 0.31% probability · 24th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-426, CWE-427
- Affected
- discord/discord
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
References
- https://gist.github.com/shellkraft/ac4be6a3953e2889a7bf54aea2db88c2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.308270Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?id.308270Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.562788Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://gist.github.com/shellkraft/ac4be6a3953e2889a7bf54aea2db88c2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.