CVE-2025-3025

CCleaner Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

HIGH

7.3

CVSS Score

Published: September 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM UTC

Updated: October 23, 2026 at 10:10 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorCCleaner

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Severity

HIGH7.3

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.1%

SSVC

No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

CCleaner · Gen Digital

90%

6.33.11465 ≤ v < < 6.36.115086.33.11465

Affected range stops below < 6.36.11508, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

Source: [email protected]

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

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.3HIGHNLOK

Attack Vector: LOCAL
Complexity: LOW
Privileges: LOW
User Interaction: REQUIRED
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality: HIGH
Integrity: HIGH
Availability: HIGH

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED

CWE

CWE-552

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