Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-4769

LPE

Published
16 May 2025
Modified
17 June 2026
CVSS Score v4 7.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0017 7th percentile
Risk Priority 25 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-4769 is a high-severity Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426) vulnerability in Yuque (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Path Interception (T1034); ranked at the 7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to CM-6 (Configuration Settings) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in CBEWIN Anytxt Searcher 1.3.1128.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file ATService.exe. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. The attack needs to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack…

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is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1034 Path Interception Persistence
**This technique has been deprecated.
T1574 Hijack Execution Flow Stealth
Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the way operating systems run programs.
T1574.001 DLL Stealth
Adversaries may abuse dynamic-link library files (DLLs) in order to achieve persistence, escalate privileges, and evade defenses.
T1574.007 Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable Stealth
Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking environment variables used to load libraries.
T1574.008 Path Interception by Search Order Hijacking Stealth
Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the search order used to load other programs.
T1574.004 Dylib Hijacking Stealth
Adversaries may execute their own payloads by placing a malicious dynamic library (dylib) with an expected name in a path a victim application searches at runtime.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-26624Shared CWE-426, CWE-427
CVE-2025-9267Shared CWE-426, CWE-427
CVE-2025-5129Shared CWE-426, CWE-427
CVE-2026-3787Shared CWE-426, CWE-427
CVE-2025-5180Shared CWE-426, CWE-427
CVE-2026-15515Shared CWE-426, CWE-427
CVE-2025-1804Shared CWE-426, CWE-427
CVE-2025-4525Shared CWE-426, CWE-427
CVE-2024-27303Shared CWE-426, CWE-427
CVE-2026-2516Shared CWE-426, CWE-427

Affected Assets

Yuque
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 2 hardening rules · 1 OS baseline
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Secure baseline settings can enforce absolute, organization-controlled paths for critical resources.

Enforces approved authorizations so that only intended actors can place or modify elements in the search path.

Limits privileges so unintended actors cannot write to or control directories in the product's search path.

Restricts logical and physical access to change system configuration, including search-path settings and directories.

Least-functionality configuration can prohibit unapproved directories or executables from being reachable via search paths.

Engineering principles such as trusted paths, complete mediation, and least privilege directly require hard-coded or validated search paths instead of external ones.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-05 full match
prevents

Preventing execution of unauthorized code directly blocks the malicious binaries that an untrusted search path would load.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure development practices include avoiding or sanitizing externally influenced search paths in application code.

PR.PS-01 partial match
prevents

Hardened configuration baselines can enforce safe search paths and restrict environment variables that enable the weakness.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

finds

Security testing can discover search-path issues but does not itself prevent them in production code.

degrades

Restricting software installation reduces the chance that untrusted binaries or libraries are placed in search paths.

prevents

Secure architecture principles include hard-coded or validated search paths and avoiding reliance on untrusted directories.

prevents

Secure coding standards require absolute paths or integrity-checked search paths, directly mitigating CWE-426.

prevents

Configuration management can enforce approved search-path settings but does not inherently prevent the weakness.

none

Change-management processes can enforce review of path-handling changes, indirectly lowering risk.

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).

Oracle Linux 8 (1 rule)
  • V-248577 OL 8 must enable kernel parameters to enforce Discretionary Access Control (DAC) on symlinks. prevents CWE-427

References