CVE-2025-34489

April 28, 2025, 7:15 p.m.

7.8
High

Description

GFI MailEssentials prior to version 21.8 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation issue. A local attacker can escalate to NT Authority/SYSTEM by sending a crafted serialized payload to a .NET Remoting Service.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Gfi
  • Mailessentials
  • <21.8

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-502
Deserialization of Untrusted Data
The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a gfi mailessentials <21.8 / / / / / / /

References

https://frycos.github.io/vulns4free/2025/04/28/mailessentials.html
https://gfi.ai/products-and-solutions/network-security-solutions/mailessentials/resources/documentation/product-releases

Tags

CWE-502
disclosure@vulncheck.com
2025-04-28
CVE-2025-34489

CVSS Score

7.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

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

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Timeline

Published: April 28, 2025, 7:15 p.m.
Last Modified: April 28, 2025, 7:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

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