Quick answers
- Is CVE-2025-48505 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-48505 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2025-48505?
- Informational severity, published 11 August 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- AMD Vitis Unified.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-48505?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2025-48505 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2025-48505?
- Check whether you run Amd Vitis Unified. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is a privilege escalation flaw caused by weak file system permissions on the Vitis Unified installation path on Windows systems. A low-privileged local user can exploit these weak permissions to replace or modify executable files or libraries before they are loaded by higher-privileged processes. The attack requires local file system access to the installation directory and does not require authentication or network reachability. Successful exploitation results in arbitrary code execution in the context of a higher-privileged process. This is a classic Windows privilege escalation via insecure file permissions (CWE-276).
Affected products
- AMD Vitis Unified
Timeline
- 2026-08-11: disclosed