CVE-2025-27997 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Blizzard Battle.net v2.40.0.15267. An attacker can exploit this by placing a malicious shell script or executable in the C:\ProgramData directory, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The CVSS score of 8.4 indicates a local attack with low complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.40.0.15267CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:blizzard:battle.net:2.40.0.15267:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.