CVE-2025-69689

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Apr 27, 2026
Updated: Apr 27, 2026
Reserved: Jan 9, 2026

Description

The Fan Control application V251 contains an improper privilege handling vulnerability in its Open File Dialog. The dialog processes user-supplied paths with elevated permissions, which can be exploited by a local attacker to perform actions with administrator-level privileges.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://getfancontrol.com/
https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases
https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases/releases/tag/V251
https://gist.github.com/ahrixia/7c89bb3f1af6e85aeedde5ddb557a529

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