What is CVE-2025-57443?

CVE-2025-57443 is a medium-severity vulnerability in N/a, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 5.1/10. Published 2025-10-02.

How severe is CVE-2025-57443?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.1 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in N/a

CVE-2025-57443

FrostWire 6.14.0-build-326 for macOS contains permissive entitlements (allow-dyld-environment-variables, disable-library-validation) that allow unprivileged local attackers to inject code into the FrostWire process via the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES environment variable. This allows escalated privileges to arbitrary TCC-approved directories.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.001 (2.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

cve@mitre.org

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-57443?: CVE-2025-57443 is a medium-severity vulnerability in N/a, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 5.1/10. Published 2025-10-02.
How severe is CVE-2025-57443?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.1 out of 10.