Privilege escalation in Voidtools Everything
CVE-2025-12683
The service employed by Everything, running as SYSTEM, communicates with the lower privileged Everything GUI via a named pipe. The named pipe has a NULL DACL and thus provides all users full permission over it; leading to potential Service Denial Of Service or Privilege escalation(only if chained with other elements) for a local low privilege user.
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
Published · last modified .
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.001 (0.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 0th percentile — 0.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Voidtools Everything — versions =<1.4.1.1029