Vulnerability · Published Jan 22, 2025 · Assigned by cloudflare
CVE-2025-0651File symlink abuse might lead to deleting files belonging to SYSTEM user
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity privilege mismanagement in WARP from Cloudflare. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 23% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Cloudflare WARP on Windows allows File Manipulation. User with a low system privileges can create a set of symlinks inside the C:\ProgramData\Cloudflare\warp-diag-partials folder. After triggering the 'Reset all settings" option the WARP service will delete the files that the symlink was pointing to. Given the WARP service operates with System privileges this might lead to deleting files owned by the System user. This issue affects WARP: before 2024.12.492.0.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | WARP | 0 – before 2024.12.492.0 |
Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:N/R:U/RE:L/U:Green