CVE-2025-14405 | THREATINT

Description

PDFsam Enhanced Uncontrolled Search Path Element Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows phyiscally-present attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of PDFsam Enhanced. An attacker must first obtain the ability to mount a malicious drive onto the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the configuration of OpenSSL. The product loads an OpenSSL configuration file from an unsecured location. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-27867.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-10 | Published 2025-12-23 | Updated 2025-12-30 | Assigner zdi

MEDIUM: 6.6CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Product status

Default status

unknown

7.0.76.15222

affected

References

www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-25-1093/ (ZDI-25-1093)

cve.org (CVE-2025-14405)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-14405)

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