CVE-2025-54081 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2025-54081

SunshineService Has Unquoted Service Path That Allows Local SYSTEM Code Execution

6.7 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Prior to version 2025.923.33222, the Windows service SunshineService is installed with an unquoted executable path. If Sunshine is installed in a directory whose name includes a space, the Service Control Manager (SCM) interprets the path incrementally and may execute a malicious binary placed earlier in the search string. This issue has been patched in version 2025.923.33222.

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

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

LizardByte

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Affected Software

Sunshine

Vulnerable Versions:

< 2025.923.33222

Timeline

Official Publish: September 23rd, 2025

Last Modified: September 23rd, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow

Privilege Escalation

T1036 Masquerading

Defense Evasion

T1543 Create or Modify System Process

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1569 System Services