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CVE-2025-2516
Use of a weak cryptographic key in the signature verification process in WPS Office
Critical9.5EPSS 0.14%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- ESET
Description
The use of a weak cryptographic key pair in the signature verification process in WPS Office (Kingsoft) on Windows allows an attacker who successfully recovered the private key to sign components. As older versions of WPS Office did not validate the update server's certificate, an Adversary-In-The-Middle attack was possible allowing updates to be hijacked.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESETCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Critical9.5 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/U:Amber |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Critical9.5 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Amber |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.14% · top 97% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- unknown 12.1.0.18276
What to do
Exploitation: This vulnerability was also found by a threat actor who weaponized it.
References (1)
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