ASUSTOR ABP/AES uncontrolled search path

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in ASUSTOR ABP and AES. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-13051. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in ASUSTOR ABP and AES (affected version not known) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-427. The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

When the service of ABP and AES is installed in a directory writable by non-administrative users, an attacker can replace or plant a DLL with the same name as one loaded by the service. Upon service restart, the malicious DLL is loaded and executed under the LocalSystem account, resulting in unauthorized code execution with elevated privileges. This issue affects ABP and AES: from ABP 2.0 through 2.0.7.9050, from AES 1.0 through 1.0.6.8290.

The weakness was published by Kazuma Matsumoto. It is possible to read the advisory at asustor.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-13051 since 11/12/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/21/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1574 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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 databases at CNNVD (CNNVD-202511-2269) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-198124). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• ASUSTOR

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• ABP
• AES

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