CVE-2025-4525 | THREATINT

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Discord 1.0.9188 on Windows. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality in the library WINSTA.dll. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. The attack needs to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Eine kritische Schwachstelle wurde in Discord 1.0.9188 für Windows entdeckt. Davon betroffen ist unbekannter Code in der Bibliothek WINSTA.dll. Mittels Manipulieren mit unbekannten Daten kann eine uncontrolled search path-Schwachstelle ausgenutzt werden. Der Angriff muss lokal passieren. Die Komplexität eines Angriffs ist eher hoch. Sie ist schwierig ausnutzbar. Der Exploit steht zur öffentlichen Verfügung.

Reserved 2025-05-10 | Published 2025-05-10 | Updated 2025-05-12 | Assigner VulDB

HIGH: 7.3CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

HIGH: 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

HIGH: 7.0CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.0AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem types

Uncontrolled Search Path

Untrusted Search Path

Timeline

2025-05-10:	Advisory disclosed
2025-05-10:	VulDB entry created
2025-05-10:	VulDB entry last update

Credits

shellkraft (VulDB User) reporter

References

vuldb.com/?id.308270 (VDB-308270 | Discord WINSTA.dll uncontrolled search path) vdb-entry

vuldb.com/?ctiid.308270 (VDB-308270 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/?submit.562788 (Submit #562788 | Discord 1.0.9188 Uncontrolled Search Path) third-party-advisory

gist.github.com/shellkraft/ac4be6a3953e2889a7bf54aea2db88c2 exploit

cve.org (CVE-2025-4525)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-4525)

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