CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2025-0285 — Paragon-Software Paragon Backup & Recovery security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8

Various Paragon Software products contain an arbitrary kernel memory mapping vulnerability within biontdrv.sys that is caused by a failure to properly validate the length of user supplied data, which can allow an attacker to perform privilege escalation exploits.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (3.1)
Published
2025-03-03
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-1284

Affected products

  • paragon-software / paragon_backup_&_recovery
  • paragon-software / paragon_disk_wiper
  • paragon-software / paragon_drive_copy
  • paragon-software / paragon_hard_disk_manager
  • paragon-software / paragon_migrate_os_to_ssd
  • paragon-software / paragon_partition_manager

Matched remediation archetype

Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management

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Check exposure

  • Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
  • Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
  • Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
  • Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
  • Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.

Authoritative sources

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