CCleaner Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability_CVE-2025-3025

7.3 / 10

HIGH

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

Description

Elevation of Privileges in the cleaning feature of Gen Digital CCleaner version 6.33.11465 on Windows allows a local user to gain SYSTEM privileges via exploiting insecure file delete operations. Reported in CCleaner v. 6.33.11465. This issue affects CCleaner: before < 6.36.11508.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-3025

Source NLOK

Published Sep 15, 2025 at 12:20

Modified Sep 15, 2025 at 12:37

Affected Product

Vendor Gen Digital

Product CCleaner

Version 6.33.11465

Affected Versions Gen Digital CCleaner 6.33.11465

CWE Classification

CWE-552

References

www.gendigital.com /us/en/contact-us/security-advisories/

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