CVE-2025-15561 — Local Privilege Escalation in NesterSoft WorkTime
An attacker can exploit the update behavior of the WorkTime monitoring daemon to elevate privileges on the local system to NT Authority\SYSTEM. A malicious executable must be na…
Published: 2026-02-19 · CVSS: 7.8 · CVSS 3.1
An attacker can exploit the update behavior of the WorkTime monitoring daemon to elevate privileges on the local system to NT Authority\SYSTEM. A malicious executable must be named WTWatch.exe and dropped in the C:\ProgramData\wta\ClientExe directory, which is writable by "Everyone". The executable will then be run by the WorkTime monitoring daemon.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7