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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2025-15561

Local Privilege Escalation in NesterSoft WorkTime

Description

An attacker can exploit the update behavior of the WorkTime monitoring daemon to elevate privileges on the local system to NT Authority\SYSTEM. A malicious executable must be named  WTWatch.exe and dropped in the C:\ProgramData\wta\ClientExe directory, which is writable by "Everyone". The executable will then be run by the WorkTime monitoring daemon.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

NesterSoft Inc. WorkTime (on-prem/cloud)

Default version status: unknown

  • <= 11.8.8affected

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