Versa SASE Client up to 7.9.4 on Windows unnecessary privileges

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Versa SASE Client up to 7.9.4 on Windows. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to unnecessary privileges. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-34290. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Versa SASE Client up to 7.9.4 on Windows and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Versa SASE Client for Windows versions released between 7.8.7 and 7.9.4 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the audit log export functionality. The client communicates user-controlled file paths to a privileged service, which performs file system operations without impersonating the requesting user. Due to improper privilege handling and a time-of-check time-of-use race condition combined with symbolic link and mount point manipulation, a local authenticated attacker can coerce the service into deleting arbitrary directories with SYSTEM privileges. This can be exploited to delete protected system folders such as C:\\Config.msi and subsequently achieve execution as NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM via MSI rollback techniques.

The weakness was presented by Eduardo Pérez Malumbres Cervera. It is possible to read the advisory at security-portal.versa-networks.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-34290 since 04/15/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. 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 7.9.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-204643). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Versa

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• SASE Client

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• 7.9.0
• 7.9.1
• 7.9.2
• 7.9.3
• 7.9.4

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