CVE-2025-69689
highThe Fan Control application V251 contains an improper privilege handling vulnerability in its Open File Dialog.
The Fan Control application V251 contains an improper privilege handling vulnerability in its Open File Dialog. The dialog processes user-supplied paths with elevated permissions, which can be exploited by a local attacker to perform actions with administrator-level privileges.
CVSS
8.8
8.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-04-27 18:16
Modified: 2026-11-04 20:10
NVD status: Awaiting Analysis
Last synced 6 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-04 20:37 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
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://getfancontrol.com cve@mitre.org
- https://gist.github.com/ahrixia/7c89bb3f1af6e85aeedde5ddb557a529 cve@mitre.org
- https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases cve@mitre.org
- https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases/releases/tag/V251 cve@mitre.org
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-04 20:37 UTC · record ↗