CVE-2025-42701
Essential information
- Published
- 08/10/2025 18:15
- Modified
- 08/10/2025 19:38
- Author
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- Creator
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- CVSS
- 5.6 MEDIUM (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H—
CVSS metrics
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Exploitability
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- Remediation level
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- Report confidence
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
- LOCAL
- Attack complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges required
- LOW
- User interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- NONE
- Integrity impact
- NONE
- Availability impact
- HIGH
- Exploit code maturity
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- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- Confidentiality (V)
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- Confidentiality (S)
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- Integrity (V)
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- Integrity (S)
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- Availability (V)
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- Availability (S)
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- Exploit maturity
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Description
A race condition exists in the Falcon sensor for Windows that could allow an attacker, with the prior ability to execute code on a host, to delete arbitrary files. CrowdStrike released a security fix for this issue in Falcon sensor for Windows versions 7.24 and above and all Long Term Visibility (LTV) sensors.
There is no indication of exploitation of these issues in the wild. Our threat hunting and intelligence team are actively monitoring for exploitation and we maintain visibility into any such attempts.
The Falcon sensor for Mac, the Falcon sensor for Linux and the Falcon sensor for Legacy Systems are not impacted by this.
CrowdStrike was made aware of this issue through our HackerOne bug bounty program. It was discovered by Cong Cheng and responsibly disclosed.
NVD status
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- 13ddcd98-6f4a-40a8-8e24-29ca0aee4661
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| crowdstrike / falcon sensor for windows | cpe:2.3:a:crowdstrike:falcon_sensor_for_windows:7.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| crowdstrike / falcon sensor for windows | cpe:2.3:a:crowdstrike:falcon_sensor_for_windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |