# CVE-2025-11531: HP System Event Utility and Omen Gaming Hub – Potential Arbitrary Code Execution

> Attackers can execute arbitrary files outside restricted paths in HP System Event Utility and Omen Gaming Hub, requiring users to upgrade to patched versions.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 9 Dec 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mr85-2f2p-w2g9

## What is CVE-2025-11531?

CVE-2025-11531 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in HP System Event Utility, published on 9 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

HP System Event Utility and Omen Gaming Hub might allow execution of 
certain files outside of their restricted paths. This
               potential vulnerability was remediated with HP System 
Event Utility version 3.2.12 and Omen Gaming Hub version 
1101.2511.101.0.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11531?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Hp Omen Gaming Hub, Hp System Event Utility.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-11531?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11531 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-11531 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11531 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in HP System Event Utility

- [CVE-2021-3437](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3437/): Privilege escalation in OMEN Gaming Hub SDK (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-11531 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-11531 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in HP System Event Utility, published on 9 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11531 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: HP System Event Utility. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11531/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11531/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11531
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11531
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-11531

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11531/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.