CVE-2025-0327
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCWE-269: Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists for two services (of which one managing audit trail data and the other acting as server managing client request) that could cause a loss of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of engineering workstation when an attacker with standard privilege modifies the executable path of the windows services. To be exploited, services need to be restarted.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceTwo Windows services (one managing audit trail data, one acting as a server for client requests) have improper privilege management allowing standard users to modify executable service paths. An attacker with standard privileges can change the service binary path to a malicious executable and achieve code execution with elevated (SYSTEM) privileges upon service restart.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify your user contextRun 'whoami /groups' or 'whoami /all' in Command Prompt or PowerShell to determine if your account is a member of the Administrators group or BUILTIN\AdministratorsAffected if Your account is a standard user (not an administrator)
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Check service configuration ACLsRun 'sc.exe sdshow <service_name>' for each critical service to view the Discretionary Access Control List (DACL). Look for entries granting standard users (or Users group) the ability to change the service binary path (WRITE_DAC or WRITE_OWNER permissions)Affected if Standard users have permissions to modify service configuration (SDDL contains (A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BU) or similar allowing write access)
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Verify service path modification capabilityAs a non-administrator user, attempt 'sc.exe queryex <service_name>' to enumerate service details, then attempt 'sc.exe qc <service_name>' to query the binary path configurationAffected if Query succeeds without admin elevation and shows service is set to a potentially suspicious or user-modifiable path
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Audit services for weak ACLs using PowerShellRun 'Get-Service -Name <service> | Get-Acl | Select-Object -Property Owner,AccessToString' for critical services. Check if the 'AccessToString' shows non-admin users have 'Write' or 'Change' permissions to the service objectAffected if Non-administrative users or the Users group appear in the DACL with write or change permissions
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Check for services running with elevated privilegesRun 'sc.exe query state=all' to list all services, then for each service run 'sc.exe qc <service_name>' to check the BINARY_PATH_NAME. Identify services where standard users can modify the pathAffected if Multiple services have configurable binary paths accessible to standard users
Your environment is affected if standard (non-administrative) user accounts have permissions to modify Windows service binary paths, as this allows privilege escalation to SYSTEM when any such service restarts.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataRestrict Windows service configuration permissions to administrators only using Windows ACLs or Group Policy; verify that standard users cannot modify service binary paths through sc config or equivalent tools.
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