CVE-2025-12683
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 · uneditedThe service employed by Everything, running as SYSTEM, communicates with the lower privileged Everything GUI via a named pipe. The named pipe has a NULL DACL and thus provides all users full permission over it; leading to potential Service Denial Of Service or Privilege escalation(only if chained with other elements) for a local low privilege user.
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 · high confidenceThe Everything service running as SYSTEM communicates with the lower-privileged Everything GUI via a named pipe that has a NULL DACL. This configuration provides all users full permission over the pipe, allowing any local low-privilege user to access it and potentially cause service denial or escalate privileges when chained with other exploits.
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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
- High
- Privileges
- Low
- Authentication
- X
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- X
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:U/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:Amber
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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Verify the Everything service is runningRun 'sc query Everything' or check Services.msc for a service named 'Everything'Affected if The Everything service is installed and running on the system
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Confirm the service runs as SYSTEMRun 'sc qc Everything' and check the SERVICE_START_NAME field, or view the service properties in Services.mscAffected if The service is configured to run as LocalSystem or a high-privilege account such as SYSTEM
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Identify the named pipe used by EverythingUse a tool such as 'pipelist.exe' from Sysinternals or run 'get-childitem \\.\pipe\' | findstr Everything' in PowerShell to enumerate named pipes that contain 'Everything' in the nameAffected if A named pipe associated with the Everything application exists on the system
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Check the DACL on the Everything named pipeUse 'sdutil.exe' from Sysinternals or PowerShell with Get-Acl on the pipe path (for example, Get-Acl '\\.\pipe\Everything') to view the security descriptor; look for a NULL DACL (where the DACL is empty or grants Everyone/Authenticated Users full control)Affected if The named pipe security descriptor has a NULL DACL, meaning the DACL is blank or grants excessive permissions to all users
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Verify low-privilege users can access the pipeUsing a standard user account (non-admin), attempt to connect to the pipe using a tool such as 'paexec.exe' or write a simple script that calls CreateFile on the pipe path; success indicates the pipe is accessibleAffected if A standard user account can successfully open or write to the named pipe, confirming the NULL DACL allows unrestricted access
The environment is affected if the Everything service is running as SYSTEM and its named pipe has a NULL DACL that allows any local user full access to the pipe.
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 dataApply a proper discretionary access control list (DACL) to the named pipe to restrict access to only the SYSTEM account and the legitimate GUI process, removing the NULL DACL configuration.
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