CVE-2025-57699

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Aug 22, 2025
Updated: Aug 22, 2025
Reserved: Aug 18, 2025

Description

Western Digital Kitfox for Windows provided by Western Digital Corporation registers a Windows service with an unquoted file path. A user with the write permission on the root directory of the system drive may execute arbitrary code with the SYSTEM privilege.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.4 High	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	jpcert
3.0	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	jpcert

Weaknesses

CWE-428 Unquoted search path or element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Western Digital Kitfox for WindowsWestern Digital Corporation	prior to 1.1.1.1Affected

References

https://www.westerndigital.com/support/product-security/wdc-25004-western-digital-kitfox-software-version-1-1-1-1
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN75211379/

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