Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published Aug 22, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-57699

Description

Western Digital Kitfox for Windows provided by Western Digital Corporation registers a Windows service with an unquoted file path. A user with the write permission on the root directory of the system drive may execute arbitrary code with the SYSTEM privilege.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN75211379/nvd
www.westerndigital.com/support/product-security/wdc-25004-western-digital-kitfox-software-version-1-1-1-1nvd

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