Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-59489

HighPublic PoCLPE

Published: 03 October 2025

Published
03 October 2025
Modified
22 October 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0002 4.4th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-59489 is a high-severity Argument Injection (CWE-88) vulnerability in Unity Editor. Its CVSS base score is 7.4 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203); ranked at the 4.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Unity Runtime before 2025-10-02 on Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux allows argument injection that can result in loading of library code from an unintended location. If an application was built with a version of Unity Editor that had the vulnerable…

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Unity Runtime code, then an adversary may be able to execute code on, and exfiltrate confidential information from, the machine on which that application is running. NOTE: product status is provided for Unity Editor because that is the information available from the Supplier. However, updating Unity Editor typically does not address the effects of the vulnerability; instead, it is necessary to rebuild and redeploy all affected applications.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
T1574.001 DLL Stealth
Adversaries may abuse dynamic-link library files (DLLs) in order to achieve persistence, escalate privileges, and evade defenses.
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.
Why these techniques?

Argument injection vulnerability in Unity Runtime allows adversaries to coerce applications into loading arbitrary libraries from attacker-specified paths via command-line arguments (e.g., xrsdk-pre-init-library), enabling client-side exploitation (T1203) and hijacking execution flow through DLL hijacking on Windows (T1574.001) or dylib/shared object hijacking on macOS/Linux/Android (T1574.004).

Affected Assets

unity
editor
2017.1.2p4\+, 2017.2.0p4\+, 2017.3.0b9\+ · 2017.4 — 2018.4 · 2019.1 — 2019.1.15f1 · 2019.2 — 2019.2.23f1

Mitigating Controls

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

References