What is CVE-2025-43491?

CVE-2025-43491 is a critical-severity vulnerability in HP Poly Lens Desktop, classified under Resource Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-09-09.

How severe is CVE-2025-43491?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in HP Poly Lens Desktop

CVE-2025-43491

A vulnerability in the Poly Lens Desktop application running on the Windows platform might allow modifications to the filesystem, which might lead to SYSTEM level privileges being granted.

Published 2025-09-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (19.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 19th percentile — 19.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

HP Poly Lens Desktop
HP, Inc. Poly Lens — versions See HP security bulletin reference for affected versions
Microsoft Windows

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-99 — Resource Injection

References

support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_12979589-12979615-16/hpsbpy04048 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-43491?: CVE-2025-43491 is a critical-severity vulnerability in HP Poly Lens Desktop, classified under Resource Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-09-09.
How severe is CVE-2025-43491?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.