Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-27997

High

Published: 21 May 2025

Published
21 May 2025
Modified
03 June 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.8th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-27997 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Blizzard Battle.Net. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue in Blizzard Battle.net v2.40.0.15267 allows attackers to escalate privileges via placing a crafted shell script or executable into the C:\ProgramData directory.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

blizzard
battle.net
2.40.0.15267

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References