CVE-2025-0732 Discord profapi.dll untrusted search path
Local attackers can exploit an untrusted search path in Discord's profapi.dll to potentially execute arbitrary code, requiring high complexity and local access.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-0732?
CVE-2025-0732 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Discord, published on 27 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Discord up to 1.0.9177 on Windows. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality in the library profapi.dll. The manipulation leads to untrusted search path. The attack needs to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Weakness: CWE-426
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0732?
How do I fix CVE-2025-0732?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0732 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-0732 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0732 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-22rr-c324-2vj7.