Security Advisory

CVE-2025-0543

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

Local privilege escalation in G DATA Security Client due to incorrect assignment of privileges to directories. This vulnerability allows a local, unprivileged attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations by placing an arbitrary executable in a globally writable directory resulting in execution by the SetupSVC.exe service in the context of SYSTEM.
Published Date January 25, 2025
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory