CVE-2025-15561CWE-269

Local Privilege Escalation in NesterSoft WorkTime

High · published February 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An attacker can exploit the update behavior of the WorkTime monitoring daemon to elevate privileges on the local system to NT Authority\SYSTEM. A malicious executable must be named  WTWatch.exe and dropped in the C:\ProgramData\wta\ClientExe directory, which is writable by "Everyone". The executable will then be run by the WorkTime monitoring daemon.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00120 · 1.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2026-02-19T10:53Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 FEB 10:53Z
    Local Privilege Escalation in NesterSoft WorkTime
    cvelistv5