CVE-2025-3025CWE-552

CCleaner Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

High · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00145 · 3.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-552 · Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
Published
2025-09-15T12:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 12:20Z
    CCleaner Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
    cvelistv5