CVE-2025-57836

high

An issue was discovered in Samsung Magician 6.3.0 through 8.3.2 on Windows.

Vendor / product: Samsung — magician

An issue was discovered in Samsung Magician 6.3.0 through 8.3.2 on Windows. The installer creates a temporary folder with weak permissions during installation, allowing a non-admin user to perform DLL hijacking and escalate privileges.

CVSS

7.8

7.8 (CVSS v3.1)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2026-01-05 17:15

Modified: 2026-11-04 22:10

NVD status: Analyzed

Last synced 4 hours ago

Verified against the source API 2026-11-04 22:37 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

samsung / magician ≥6.3.0 ≤8.3.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-427

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://semiconductor.samsung.com/support/quality-support/product-security-updates/

Vendor advisory: https://semiconductor.samsung.com/support/quality-support/product-security-updates/cve-2025-57836/

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-04 22:37 UTC · record ↗

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