CVE-2025-59373
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the restore mechanism of ASUS System Control Interface.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.13%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the restore mechanism of ASUS System Control Interface. It can be triggered when an unprivileged actor copies files without proper validation into protected system paths, potentially leading to arbitrary files being executed as SYSTEM. For more information, please refer to section Security Update for MyASUS in the ASUS Security Advisory.
- 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
- 0.13% probability · 3th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-732
- Source
- 54bf65a7-a193-42d2-b1ba-8e150d3c35e1
EPSS 0.1% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.