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JVNDB-2025-000059

Seagate Toolkit registers a Windows service with an unquoted file path

Overview

Seagate Toolkit provided by Seagate Technology contains the following vulnerability.

* Unquoted search path or element (CWE-428) - CVE-2025-9043

Kazuma Matsumoto of GMO Cybersecurity by IERAE, Inc. reported this vulnerability to the developer and IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.
CVSS Severity (What is CVSS?)

CVSS V3 Severity:
Base Metrics 6.7 (Medium) [IPA Score]
  • Attack Vector: Local
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: High
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
  • Confidentiality Impact: High
  • Integrity Impact: High
  • Availability Impact: High
Affected Products


Seagate Technology LLC
  • Toolkit versions prior to 2.34.0.33

Impact

A user with the write permission on the root directory of the system drive may execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privilege.
Solution

[Update the Software]
Update the software to the latest version according to the information provided by the developer.
Vendor Information

Seagate Technology LLC
CWE (What is CWE?)

  1. No Mapping(CWE-Other) [IPA Evaluation]
CVE (What is CVE?)

  1. CVE-2025-9043
References

  1. JVN : JVN#89385114
Revision History

  • [2025/08/14]
      Web page was published
  • [2025/08/19]
      Overview was modified
      Affected Products : Product version was modified
      Vendor Information : Content was modified
      CVE : CVE-ID was added
      References : Content was added

Date Public2025/08/14
Date First Published2025/08/14
Date Last Updated2025/08/19