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CVE-2025-70342

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-03-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

erase-install prior to v40.4 commit 2c31239 writes swiftDialog credential output to a hardcoded path /var/tmp/dialog.json. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to intercept admin credentials entered during reinstall/erase operations via creating a named pipe.

Affected products

• Grahampugh Erase-Install: before 41.0 — fixed in 41.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Grahampugh Erase-Install 41.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/grahampugh/erase-install/commit/2c31239fb8519d87577514b3db9ddb0771232a21
• https://github.com/grahampugh/erase-install/pull/574
• https://github.com/malvector/CVE-2025-70342

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