A local attacker can bypass OpenEDR's 2.5.1.0 self-defense mechanism by renaming a malicious executable to match a trusted process name (e.g., csrss.exe, edrsvc.exe, edrcon.exe). This allows unauthorized interaction with the OpenEDR kernel driver, granting access to privileged functionality such as configuration changes, process monitoring, and IOCTL communication that should be restricted to trusted components. While this issue alone does not directly grant SYSTEM privileges, it breaks OpenEDR's trust model and enables further exploitation leading to full local privilege escalation.
History

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-250
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Comodosecurity
Comodosecurity openedr
Vendors & Products Comodosecurity
Comodosecurity openedr

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000

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Description A local attacker can bypass OpenEDR's 2.5.1.0 self-defense mechanism by renaming a malicious executable to match a trusted process name (e.g., csrss.exe, edrsvc.exe, edrcon.exe). This allows unauthorized interaction with the OpenEDR kernel driver, granting access to privileged functionality such as configuration changes, process monitoring, and IOCTL communication that should be restricted to trusted components. While this issue alone does not directly grant SYSTEM privileges, it breaks OpenEDR's trust model and enables further exploitation leading to full local privilege escalation.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2026-03-16T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2026-03-17T13:54:12.332Z

Reserved: 2026-01-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-69783

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-03-17T13:54:03.696Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-03-16T16:16:13.333

Modified: 2026-03-17T14:20:01.670

Link: CVE-2025-69783

cve-icon Redhat

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