CVE-2025-2516 (GCVE-0-2025-2516)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-27 14:29
Modified
2025-03-27 15:15
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-326 - Inadequate Encryption Strength
Summary
The use of a weak cryptographic key pair in the signature verification process in WPS Office (Kingsoft) on Windows allows an attacker who successfully recovered the private key to sign components.
As older versions of WPS Office did not validate the update server's certificate, an Adversary-In-The-Middle attack was possible allowing updates to be hijacked.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsoft | WPS Office |
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| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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