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Medium · 6.1 Public exploit CVE-2025-0651 EUVD-2025-1805GHSA-9g4q-mq35-ffg3

File symlink abuse might lead to deleting files belonging to SYSTEM user

Published Jan 22, 2025 · Updated Feb 12, 2025 · Assigned by cloudflare

Description

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Cloudflare WARP on Windows allows File Manipulation.

User with a low system privileges  can create a set of symlinks inside the C:\ProgramData\Cloudflare\warp-diag-partials folder. After triggering the 'Reset all settings" option the WARP service will delete the files that the symlink was pointing to. Given the WARP service operates with System privileges this might lead to deleting files owned by the System user.
This issue affects WARP: before 2024.12.492.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Cloudflare WARP < 2024.12.492.0 2024.12.492.0

Public exploits

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