An issue was discovered in K7 Ultimate Security 17.0.2045. A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the K7 Ultimate Security antivirus can be exploited by a local unprivileged user on default installations of the product. Insecure access to a named pipe allows unprivileged users to edit any registry key, leading to a full compromise as SYSTEM.

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Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:k7computing:k7_ultimate_security:17.0.2045:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared K7computing
K7computing k7 Ultimate Security
Vendors & Products K7computing
K7computing k7 Ultimate Security

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-269
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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Description An issue was discovered in K7 Ultimate Security 17.0.2045. A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the K7 Ultimate Security antivirus can be exploited by a local unprivileged user on default installations of the product. Insecure access to a named pipe allows unprivileged users to edit any registry key, leading to a full compromise as SYSTEM.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-22T16:18:34.935Z

Reserved: 2025-12-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-67826

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-22T16:18:17.352Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-12-22T15:16:00.550

Modified: 2026-01-02T15:53:32.223

Link: CVE-2025-67826

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-12-23T22:40:15Z

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