CVE-2025-1369 MicroWord eScan Antivirus USB Password os command injection

What is CVE-2025-1369?

CVE-2025-1369 is a low-severity command injection vulnerability in MicroWord eScan Antivirus, published on 17 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in MicroWord eScan Antivirus 7.0.32 on Linux. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component USB Password Handler. The manipulation leads to os command injection. The attack needs to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Weakness: CWE-78, CWE-77

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1369?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Escanav Escan Anti-Virus.

How do I fix CVE-2025-1369?

No fix published yet.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2025-1369 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-1369 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in MicroWord eScan Antivirus

• CVE-2018-18388 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-0798 MicroWorld eScan Antivirus Quarantine rtscanner os command injection Critical 9.2
• CVE-2023-4383 MicroWorld eScan Anti-Virus runasroot incorrect execution-assigned permissions High 7.8
• CVE-2021-26624 eScan Anti-Virus Local privilege escalation Vulnerability High 7.8
• CVE-2023-2875 eScan Antivirus IoControlCode PROCOBSRVESX.SYS 0x22E008u null pointer dereference Medium 5.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-frqq-9j8v-cw7m, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-1369.