CVE-2025-67826
HIGHK7 Ultimate Security 17.0.2045 - Local Privilege Escalation via Named Pipe Registry Key Manipulation
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://support.k7computing.com/index.php?/selfhelp/view-article/Advisory-issued-on-22nd-Dec-2025
Product
https://www.k7computing.com/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.7
EPSS
0.0013
EPSS Percentile
2.9%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-269
Status
published
Products (1)
k7computing/k7_ultimate_security
17.0.2045
Published
Dec 22, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026