High 7.8Published Feb 3, 2026

CVE-2025-60865Insecure Permissions vulnerability in avanquest Driver Updater v.9.1.57803.1174 allows a local attacker to escalate privileges via the Driver Updater Service windows component.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 09:00 UTC)

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Insecure Permissions vulnerability in avanquest Driver Updater v.9.1.57803.1174 allows a local attacker to escalate privileges via the Driver Updater Service windows component.

CVSS: 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-284
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jun 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

avanquest pc_helpsoft_driver_updater avanquest:pc_helpsoft_driver_updater	9.1.57803.1174	NVD

References

https://github.com/parad0x1334/CVE-Disclosures/tree/50e5d2bf33b2926db2cb14d47d392b38ac619a41/Driver%20Updater%20-%20PCHelpsoftexploit, third-party-advisory
https://www.pchelpsoft.com/products/driver-updater/product

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