Quick answers
- Is CVE-2025-57489 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-57489 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2025-57489?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.1, published 1 December 2025.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Shirt-Pocket Superduper\! 3.10 and earlier.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-57489?
- 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-2025-57489 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2025-57489?
- Check whether you run Shirt-Pocket Superduper\! at an affected version. 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
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the SDAgent component of Shirt Pocket SuperDuper! v3.10 and earlier. The flaw stems from improper access control surrounding a setuid binary used to facilitate administrative tasks without repeated password prompts. When the application's 'lock' is toggled to an unlocked state, the component fails to properly validate that incoming commands are originating from the legitimate SuperDuper! application. A local malicious process can exploit this lack of validation to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. The vendor has addressed this in version 3.11 by implementing signature and notarization validation for commands executed with escalated privileges.
Affected products
- Shirt Pocket SuperDuper! 3.10 and earlier
Timeline
- 2025-11-18: advisory: Vendor blog post detailing the vulnerability and release of v3.11
- 2025-12-01: disclosed: CVE published to NVD