CVE-2025-57699: Western Digital Corporation Western Digital Kitfox For Windows

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Western Digital Kitfox for Windows provided by Western Digital Corporation registers a Windows service with an unquoted file path. A user with the write permission on the root directory of the system drive may execute arbitrary code with the SYSTEM privilege.

Affected products

• Western Digital Corporation Western Digital Kitfox For Windows: before 1.1.1.1 (fixed in 1.1.1.1)

Published 2025-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.