# CVE-2025-61792: Race condition in DS-700 iQ

> A potential race condition in Quadient DS-700 iQ devices may allow local attackers to bypass kiosk mode and gain administrative access.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 6 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qc9v-792j-m4rx

## What is CVE-2025-61792?

CVE-2025-61792 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Quadient DS-700 iQ, published on 30 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Quadient DS-700 iQ devices through 2025-09-30 might have a race condition during the quick clicking of (in order) the Question Mark button, the Help Button, the About button, and the Help Button, leading to a transition out of kiosk mode into local administrative access. NOTE: the reporter indicates that the "behavior was observed sporadically" during "limited time on the client site," making it not "possible to gain more information about the specific kiosk mode crashing issue," and the only conclusion was "there appears to be some form of race condition." Accordingly, there can be doubt that a reproducible cybersecurity vulnerability was identified; sporadic software crashes can also be caused by a hardware fault on a single device (for example, transient RAM errors). The reporter also describes a variety of other issues, including initial access via USB because of the absence of a "lock-pick resistant locking solution for the External Controller PC cabinet," which is not a cybersecurity vulnerability (section 4.1.5 of the CNA Operational Rules). Finally, it is unclear whether the device or OS configuration was inappropriate, given that the risks are typically limited to insider threats within the mail operations room of a large company.

Weakness: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-61792?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-61792?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-61792 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-61792 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-61792 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-61792 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-61792 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Quadient DS-700 iQ, published on 30 Sep 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-2025-61792 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Quadient DS-700 iQ. 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-2025-61792/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-61792/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-61792
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61792
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-61792

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-61792/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.