# CVE-2025-10578: HP Support Assistant - Potential Escalation of Privilege

Status: published. Published: 2025-10-01. Updated: 2026-11-03.

A potential security vulnerability has been identified in the HP Support Assistant for versions prior to 9.47.41.0. The vulnerability could potentially allow a local attacker to escalate privileges via an arbitrary file write.

## Remediation

No remediation reported in collected sources

## Affected products and versions

- HP Inc. / HP Support Assistant: See HP Security Bulletin reference for affected versions. (unknown). Source: CNA: hp

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 4.0: 5.8 (medium); CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N; source: CNA: hp

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: 0.12% as of 2026-11-03; percentile 1.77%

- SSVC: exploitation none; automatable no; technical impact total; source ADP: CISA-ADP

- Weaknesses: CWE-269

## Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

## References

- https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_13048717-13048785-16/hpsbgn04053 (CNA: hp)

## Provenance

- CNA: hp: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10578; retrieved 2026-11-03; source updated 2026-11-03

- FIRST EPSS: https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2025-10578; retrieved 2026-11-03; source updated Not reported

Revision: 01e3973d83f3dc709a1322a719cad71925d9197a72546917d4ae8ad191451d5f

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