CVE-2025-43711
Published: 05 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-43711 is a high-severity Incomplete Cleanup (CWE-459) vulnerability in Tunnelblick (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 21.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-20098
Vulnerability details
Tunnelblick 3.5beta06 before 7.0, when incompletely uninstalled, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code as root (upon the next boot) by dragging a crafted Tunnelblick.app file into /Applications.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Mandates complete sanitization during cleanup so that shared resources (memory, caches, buffers) do not retain data across subjects.
Operational retention schedules mandate complete cleanup of temporary or residual sensitive data after use.
Termination of the non-persistent artifact guarantees cleanup of temporary state, directly countering incomplete cleanup weaknesses.
Fail-safe procedures can explicitly require cleanup of temporary state, resources, or privileges on failure to avoid leaving the system in an inconsistent state.
The explicit delete step when information is no longer needed implements the cleanup that this weakness omits.
Enforces complete cleanup and sanitization steps during disposal, closing gaps that leave data remnants on retired components.