CVE-2025-41727
Published: 27 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-41727 is a high-severity Unprotected Alternate Channel (CWE-420) vulnerability in Certvde (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 0.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-14 (Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mitigates authentication bypass by explicitly defining and restricting privileged operations without identification or authentication in the Device Manager UI.
Enforces approved authorizations for logical access, preventing low-privileged attackers from performing administrator operations via the bypassed interface.
Requires re-authentication prior to privileged Device Manager operations, adding a defense layer against primary authentication bypass.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Authentication bypass in local Device Manager UI directly enables local privilege escalation from low-priv to admin via unprotected alternate channel (CWE-420).
NVD Description
A local low privileged attacker can bypass the authentication of the Device Manager user interface, allowing them to perform privileged operations and gain administrator access.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-41727 is an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting the Device Manager user interface. Published on 2026-01-27, it allows a local low-privileged attacker to circumvent authentication controls, enabling the execution of privileged operations and escalation to administrator access. The vulnerability is rated with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and is associated with CWE-420 (Unprotected Alternate Channel).
A local attacker with low privileges can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation grants high-impact access to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, specifically by performing administrator-level actions through the bypassed Device Manager interface.
For mitigation details, refer to the advisory at https://certvde.com/de/advisories/VDE-2025-092.
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