Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-7073

HighUpdated

Published: 10 December 2025

Published
10 December 2025
Modified
18 May 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 8.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/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 0.0001 1.1th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-7073 is a high-severity Link Following (CWE-59) vulnerability in Bitdefender Antivirus. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 1.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Bitdefender Total Security versions prior to 27.0.47.241 allows low-privileged attackers to elevate privileges. The issue arises from bdservicehost.exe deleting files from a user-writable directory (C:\ProgramData\Atc\Feedback) without proper symbolic link validation, enabling arbitrary file deletion.…

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This issue is chained with a file copy operation during network events and a filter driver bypass via DLL injection to achieve arbitrary file copy and code execution as elevated user.

CWE(s)
CWE-59

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

bitdefender
antivirus
≤ 30.0.25.77
bitdefender
antivirus plus
≤ 27.0.47.241
bitdefender
endpoint security tools
≤ 7.9.20.515
bitdefender
internet security
≤ 27.0.47.241
bitdefender
total security
≤ 27.0.47.241

Mitigating Controls

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

References