CVE-2025-0542

G DATA Management Server Local privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Jan 25, 2025
Updated: Feb 12, 2025
Reserved: Jan 17, 2025

Description

Local privilege escalation due to incorrect assignment of privileges of temporary files in the update mechanism of G DATA Management Server. This vulnerability allows a local, unprivileged attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations by placing a crafted ZIP archive in a globally writable directory, which gets unpacked in the context of SYSTEM and results in arbitrary file write.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.3 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	cirosec
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	cirosec

Weaknesses

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
G DATA Management ServerG DATA CyberDefense AG	before 15.8.333Affected

References

https://github.com/nullby73/security-advisories/tree/main/CVE-2025-0542

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