CVE-2025-52361 Privilege escalation in n/a
A local low-privilege user can escalate to root by editing an insecurely permissioned init script executed with root privileges on boot.
- 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-2025-52361?
CVE-2025-52361 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Insecure permissions in the script /etc/init.d/lighttpd in AK-Nord USB-Server-LXL Firmware v0.0.16 Build 2023-03-13 allows a locally authenticated low-privilege user to execute arbitrary commands with root privilege via editing this script which is executed with root-privileges on any interaction and on every system boot.
Weakness: CWE-276
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-52361?
How do I fix CVE-2025-52361?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-52361 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-52361 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-52361 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h64g-vgvx-2m8r.