ASUSTOR ABP/AES Windows Service Configuration unquoted search path

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in ASUSTOR ABP and AES. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Windows Service Configuration. The manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-8070. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in ASUSTOR ABP and AES (the affected version is unknown). This issue affects an unknown code of the component Windows Service Configuration. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unquoted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-428. The product uses a search path that contains an unquoted element, in which the element contains whitespace or other separators. This can cause the product to access resources in a parent path. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Windows service configuration of ABP and AES contains an unquoted ImagePath registry value vulnerability. This allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code by placing a malicious executable in a predictable location such as C:\Program.exe. If the service runs with elevated privileges, exploitation results in privilege escalation to SYSTEM level. This vulnerability arises from an unquoted service path affecting systems where the executable resides in a path containing spaces. Affected products and versions include: ABP 2.0.7.6130 and earlier as well as AES 1.0.6.6133 and earlier.

The weakness was published by Kazuma Matsumoto. The advisory is shared at asustor.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-8070 since 07/23/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/23/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574.009 for this issue.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-22418). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• ASUSTOR

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• ABP
• AES

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