CVE-2025-67905

High severity, CVSS 8.7. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Malwarebytes AdwCleaner before v.8.7.0 runs as Administrator and performs an insecure log file delete operation in which the target location is user-controllable, allowing a non-admin user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM via a symbolic link, a related issue to CVE-2023-28892. To exploit this, an attacker must create a file in a given folder path and intercept the application log file deletion flow.

Published 2026-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.