CVE-2025-3025

CCleaner Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Sep 15, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Mar 31, 2025

Description

Elevation of Privileges in the cleaning feature of Gen Digital CCleaner version 6.33.11465 on Windows allows a local user to gain SYSTEM privileges via exploiting insecure file delete operations. Reported in CCleaner v. 6.33.11465. This issue affects CCleaner: before < 6.36.11508.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NLOK

Weaknesses

CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

Affected Products

Product	Versions
CCleanerGen Digital	6.33.11465 to before < 6.36.11508Affected

References

https://www.gendigital.com/us/en/contact-us/security-advisories/

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