CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2025-44016 — Teamviewer Digital Employee Experience security vulnerability
A vulnerability in TeamViewer DEX Client (former 1E client) - Content Distribution Service (NomadBranch.exe) prior version 25.11 for Windows allows malicious actors to bypass file integrity validation via a crafted request. By providing a valid hash for a malicious file, an attacker can cause the service to incorrectly validate and process the file as trusted, enabling arbitrary code execution under the Nomad Branch service context.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 8.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2025-12-11
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- windows/system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
- teamviewer / digital_employee_experience
Matched remediation archetype
Command, code, expression, and template injection
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Check exposure
- Trace untrusted values to process execution, interpreters, evaluators, template engines, dynamic imports, and administrative scripting features.
- Determine whether the affected path is reachable across each trust boundary and which service account or host privilege it inherits.
- Review configuration for optional execution features, unsafe compatibility modes, and shell invocation.
Remediate safely
- Replace string-built commands or evaluated code with fixed operations and structured argument APIs that do not invoke a shell.
- Use strict allowlists for operation identifiers and reject unexpected input before it reaches any interpreter.
- Update the affected component and add inert regression tests covering metacharacters, encoding variants, and alternate request paths.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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