CVE-2025-4525
Discord WINSTA.dll uncontrolled search path
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.3 High
- Published
- May 10, 2025
- Updated
- May 12, 2025
- Reserved
- May 10, 2025
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 7.3 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | VulDB |
| 3.1 | 7.0 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | VulDB |
| 3.0 | 7.0 High | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | VulDB |
| 2.0 | 6.0 Medium | AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C | VulDB |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Discordn/a |
|
References
- VDB-308270 | Discord WINSTA.dll uncontrolled search pathvdb-entry
- VDB-308270 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
- Submit #562788 | Discord 1.0.9188 Uncontrolled Search Paththird-party-advisory
- https://gist.github.com/shellkraft/ac4be6a3953e2889a7bf54aea2db88c2exploit
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