FKIE_CVE-2025-9043

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-14 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:08
Severity
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
The service executable path in Seagate Toolkit on Versions prior to 2.34.0.33 on Windows allows an attacker with Admin privileges to exploit a vulnerability as classified under CWE-428: Unquoted Search Path or Element. An attacker with write permissions to the root could place a malicious Program.exe file, which would execute with SYSTEM privileges.
References
c6156efd-4bd0-48d7-8520-680200527478https://www.seagate.com/product-security/#security-advisories
c6156efd-4bd0-48d7-8520-680200527478https://www.seagate.com/support/software/toolkit/
Impacted products
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T10:08:12.637",
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