Local privilege escalation via replaceable installer files
Published Jun 25, 2025 · Updated Aug 19, 2025
Privilege escalation in Windows driver installers from Brother, Toshiba Tec, and Ricoh allows local users to run programs as administrators. The installers or their privileged support software use files that low-privileged users can replace, causing an attacker-supplied program to run in the elevated context. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and an installer run or another operation that requests administrative privileges, yielding arbitrary administrative code execution.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Windows driver installers from Brother, Toshiba Tec, and Ricoh allows local users to run programs as administrators. The installers or their privileged support software use files that low-privileged users can replace, causing an attacker-supplied program to run in the elevated context. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and an installer run or another operation that requests administrative privileges, yielding arbitrary administrative code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-49797
- Published
- Jun 25, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 19, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-552, T1574
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jun 25, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 19, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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