CVE-2025-0542

7.3 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.3). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 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

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-22, CWE-276
Published: 2025-01-25
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

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

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