CCleaner Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

published 2025-09-15 13 mo ago modified 2026-10-23 16 d ago also EUVD-2025-29181

cvss: 7.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Gen Digital CCleaner < 6.36.11508

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 13 mo ago (2025-09-16)

Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Gen Digital CCleaner

Classification

Weakness

CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

References

gendigital.com /us/en/contact-us/security-advisories/

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-3025
NVD CVE-2025-3025

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Summary