{"id":85173,"date":"2025-10-31T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:46:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-11-02T03:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:01:41","slug":"cve-2025-48540-local-escalation-of-privilege-due-to-logic-error-in-rpcstate-cpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-48540-local-escalation-of-privilege-due-to-logic-error-in-rpcstate-cpp\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-48540: Local Escalation of Privilege Due to Logic Error in RpcState.cpp<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE-2025-48540 is a potential security vulnerability that could expose systems to local privilege escalation due to a logic error in RpcState.cpp. This issue affects multiple versions of software using the RpcState.cpp implementation. It&#8217;s a critical issue because it could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-41667-potential-system-compromise-via-file-access-exploitation\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"92168\">potentially allow attackers to compromise the system<\/a> or leak data, without the need for any additional execution privileges or user interaction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-48540<br \/>\nSeverity: High (7.8 CVSS Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Local<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Not needed<br \/>\nImpact: System compromise, potential data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-831471020\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 720px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center; letter-spacing: -0.02em;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 10px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 42px; height: 42px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    Share secrets securely\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 14px; color: #d1d5db;\">\r\n    Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 18px; color: #a1a1aa;\">\r\n    Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #e4e4e7;\">\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Private Spaces for organizations and teams<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, files, and notes<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Sensitive AI work and protected collaboration<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Built for information that cannot leak<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #ffffff;\">\r\n    Our mission is to secure human work alongside AI.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Download Ameeba\r\n    <\/a>\r\n\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Learn More\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>[Software A] | [Version 1.0 to 2.5]<br \/>\n[Software B] | [Version 3.0 to 4.1]<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Due to a logic error in the processTransactInternal function of RpcState.cpp, an attacker may write to memory outside the intended boundary. This out-of-bounds write can lead to unauthorized memory modification, potentially allowing an attacker to escalate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-36630-tenable-nessus-arbitrarily-overwrites-system-files-with-privilege-escalation\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"91988\">privileges on the local system<\/a> without additional execution rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-4055274094\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a conceptual example of how this vulnerability might be exploited. This pseudocode represents the logic error in the RpcState.cpp file that could be used for a malicious operation:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">int processTransactInternal(int dataSize, char* data) {\nchar buffer[100];\nif (dataSize &gt; 100) {\n\/\/ Logic error: Writes to the buffer without checking the size\nmemcpy(buffer, data, dataSize);\n}\n\/\/ ... other code ...\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>A malicious user could provide a data size greater than the buffer size, causing a buffer overflow and potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-5692-unauthorized-data-modification-and-privilege-escalation-in-wordpress-lead-form-data-collection-to-crm-plugin\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"92033\">leading to local privilege escalation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Users are advised to apply vendor patches as soon as they are available. In the meantime, the use of Web Application Firewalls (WAF) or Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) can provide temporary mitigation while waiting for the patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview CVE-2025-48540 is a potential security vulnerability that could expose systems to local privilege escalation due to a logic error in RpcState.cpp. This issue affects multiple versions of software using the RpcState.cpp implementation. It&#8217;s a critical issue because it could potentially allow attackers to compromise the system or leak data, without the need for any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[86,76],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-85173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","attack_vector-buffer-overflow","attack_vector-privilege-escalation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85380,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173\/revisions\/85380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=85173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}