CVE-2025-3025 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2025-3025

CCleaner Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

7.3 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Dong-uk Kim (@justlikebono)
Trend Micro, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) ZDI-CAN-26474

References

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

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Affected Vendor

Gen Digital

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Affected Software

CCleaner

Vulnerable Versions:

6.33.11465

Timeline

Official Publish: September 15th, 2025

Last Modified: February 26th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1083 File and Directory Discovery

T1005 Data from Local System

T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel

T1565 Data Manipulation