Wibu CodeMeter up to 8.30. Control Center least privilege violation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Wibu CodeMeter up to 8.30. and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Control Center. The manipulation leads to least privilege violation. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-47809. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Wibu CodeMeter up to 8.30.. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Control Center. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a least privilege violation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-272. The elevated privilege level required to perform operations such as chroot() should be dropped immediately after the operation is performed. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Wibu CodeMeter before 8.30a sometimes allows privilege escalation immediately after installation (before a logoff or reboot). For exploitation, there must have been an unprivileged installation with UAC, and the CodeMeter Control Center component must be installed, and the CodeMeter Control Center component must not have been restarted. In this scenario, the local user can navigate from Import License to a privileged instance of Windows Explorer.

It is possible to read the advisory at wibu.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-47809 since 05/10/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 8.30a eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-15399). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Wibu

Name

• CodeMeter

Version

• 8.0
• 8.1
• 8.2
• 8.3
• 8.4
• 8.5
• 8.6
• 8.7
• 8.8
• 8.9
• 8.10
• 8.11
• 8.12
• 8.13
• 8.14
• 8.15
• 8.16
• 8.17
• 8.18
• 8.19
• 8.20
• 8.21
• 8.22
• 8.23
• 8.24
• 8.25
• 8.26
• 8.27
• 8.28
• 8.29
• 8.30.

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