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CVE-2025-69689

HIGH

8.8

Description

The Fan Control application V251 contains an improper privilege handling vulnerability in its Open File Dialog. The dialog processes user-supplied paths with elevated permissions, which can be exploited by a local attacker to perform actions with administrator-level privileges.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score8.8

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published4/27/2026

Last Modified4/27/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269

References

https://getfancontrol.com(cve@mitre.org)

https://gist.github.com/ahrixia/7c89bb3f1af6e85aeedde5ddb557a529(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases/releases/tag/V251(cve@mitre.org)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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