{"id":"CVE-2025-57699","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-57699","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T09:27:11.325Z","title":"A user with the write permission on the root directory of the system drive may execute arbitrary code with the SYSTEM privilege.","description":"Western Digital Kitfox for Windows provided by Western Digital Corporation registers a Windows service with an unquoted file path.\r\nA user with the write permission on the root directory of the system drive may execute arbitrary code with the SYSTEM privilege.","published":"2025-08-22T07:15:46.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:43:18.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.4,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-428"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00168,"percentile":0.06071,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN75211379/","source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"https://www.westerndigital.com/support/product-security/wdc-25004-western-digital-kitfox-software-version-1-1-1-1","source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-57699","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}