CVE-2025-9043 Privilege escalation in Toolkit
An attacker with admin privileges can execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges via an unquoted service path in Seagate Toolkit.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-9043?
CVE-2025-9043 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Seagate Toolkit, published on 14 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The service executable path in Seagate Toolkit on Versions prior to 2.34.0.33 on Windows allows an attacker with Admin privileges to exploit a vulnerability as classified under CWE-428: Unquoted Search Path or Element. An attacker with write permissions to the root could place a malicious Program.exe file, which would execute with SYSTEM privileges.
Weakness: CWE-428
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9043?
How do I fix CVE-2025-9043?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-9043 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-9043 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9043 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wqhq-2hf2-282r.