CVE-2025-15314

Medium

Published: 10 February 2026

Published

10 February 2026

Modified

20 February 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0003 10.0th percentile

Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-15314 is a medium-severity Link Following (CWE-59) vulnerability in Tanium End-User-Cx. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique File Deletion (T1070.004); ranked at the 10.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to File Deletion (T1070.004) and 1 other technique.

Threat & Defense Details

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1070.004 File Deletion Stealth

Adversaries may delete files left behind by the actions of their intrusion activity.

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T1485 Data Destruction Impact

Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources.

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Why these techniques?

Arbitrary file deletion vuln directly enables local file removal for covering tracks (T1070.004) or data destruction (T1485).

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

Tanium addressed an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in end-user-cx.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-15314 is an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability affecting Tanium's end-user-cx component. Published on 2026-02-10, the issue has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N) and is associated with CWE-59 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access) as well as NVD-CWE-noinfo. Tanium has addressed the vulnerability.

A local attacker with low privileges, such as a standard user account on the affected system, can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation enables high-impact integrity violations, specifically arbitrary file deletion, without affecting confidentiality or availability.

Tanium's security advisory TAN-2025-010, available at https://security.tanium.com/TAN-2025-010, provides details on mitigation and patches for this vulnerability.