CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-67905

8.7 HIGH Published 2026-02-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-02-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

Malwarebytes AdwCleaner before v.8.7.0 runs as Administrator and performs an insecure log file delete operation in which the target location is user-controllable, allowing a non-admin user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM via a symbolic link, a related issue to CVE-2023-28892. To exploit this, an attacker must create a file in a given folder path and intercept the application log file deletion flow.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References