Humming Heads Defense Platform Home Edition up to 3.9.51.x unnecessary privileges

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Humming Heads Defense Platform Home Edition up to 3.9.51.x. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to unnecessary privileges. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-22890. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Humming Heads Defense Platform Home Edition up to 3.9.51.x and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unnecessary privileges vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-250. The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Execution with unnecessary privileges issue exists in Defense Platform Home Edition Ver.3.9.51.x and earlier. If an attacker performs a specific operation, SYSTEM privilege of the Windows system where the product is running may be obtained.

The advisory is shared for download at hummingheads.co.jp. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-22890 since 01/27/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 02/04/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Humming Heads

Name

• Defense Platform Home Edition

Version

• 3.9.0
• 3.9.1
• 3.9.2
• 3.9.3
• 3.9.4
• 3.9.5
• 3.9.6
• 3.9.7
• 3.9.8
• 3.9.9
• 3.9.10
• 3.9.11
• 3.9.12
• 3.9.13
• 3.9.14
• 3.9.15
• 3.9.16
• 3.9.17
• 3.9.18
• 3.9.19
• 3.9.20
• 3.9.21
• 3.9.22
• 3.9.23
• 3.9.24
• 3.9.25
• 3.9.26
• 3.9.27
• 3.9.28
• 3.9.29
• 3.9.30
• 3.9.31
• 3.9.32
• 3.9.33
• 3.9.34
• 3.9.35
• 3.9.36
• 3.9.37
• 3.9.38
• 3.9.39
• 3.9.40
• 3.9.41
• 3.9.42
• 3.9.43
• 3.9.44
• 3.9.45
• 3.9.46
• 3.9.47
• 3.9.48
• 3.9.49
• 3.9.50
• 3.9.51

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