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TeamViewer DEX CVE-2025-64987

HIGH
Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
2025-12-11 psirt@teamviewer.com
7.2
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: teamviewer
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate with Actioner-role credentials
  2. Exploit
    Craft malicious CheckSimpleIoC instruction
  3. Execution
    Inject commands via improper input validation
  4. Impact
    Execute elevated commands on managed endpoints

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires an authenticated account holding the 'Actioner' role within the TeamViewer DEX (former 1E DEX) platform, and the attack targets the specific 1E-Explorer-TachyonCore-CheckSimpleIoC instruction, whose improper input validation (CWE-20) permits command injection. The platform must have managed/connected devices for the elevated commands to execute against. Limiting factors: the required privileged application role (PR:H) excludes anonymous or low-privilege users, no user interaction by a victim is needed (UI:N), and no public exploit code exists, so an attacker must both obtain the privileged role and author the injection payload. This bounds realistic risk to malicious insiders or adversaries who have already gained a privileged operator foothold.

Impact

This is a genuine but conditional risk rather than a drop-everything emergency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N, score 7.2) describes a network-reachable, low-complexity flaw that nonetheless requires authenticated access at a privileged role level - the description specifies 'Actioner privileges', an application role within the TeamViewer DEX (former 1E DEX) platform, which materially constrains the attacker population to insiders or anyone who has already compromised a privileged operator account. Impact is severe (C:H/I:H/A:H) because successful injection yields remote execution of elevated commands on managed endpoints connected to the platform. Exploitation signals are modest and consistent with each other: EPSS is 1.16% (66th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, so there is no evidence of active or widespread exploitation. No SSVC decision data was provided in the input. One point to verify with the vendor: the CVSS carries S:U (unchanged scope), yet the described effect - a platform-role user causing command execution on separate downstream managed devices - arguably crosses a security authority boundary (scope change), which would raise the real-world severity; see assessed vectors below.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who already holds (or has phished/compromised) a TeamViewer DEX account with the Actioner role submits a crafted 1E-Explorer-TachyonCore-CheckSimpleIoC instruction whose input is not properly validated, smuggling shell metacharacters or extra commands into the executed payload. The platform then relays and runs these elevated commands on the endpoints it manages, giving the attacker arbitrary code execution across connected devices. No public proof-of-concept is known, so an attacker would need to develop the injection payload themselves.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
No patch listed yet 1.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 08, 2026

Command injection in the 1E-Explorer-TachyonCore-CheckSimpleIoC instruction of TeamViewer DEX (formerly 1E DEX) allows an authenticated operator holding the Actioner role to execute arbitrary elevated commands on devices managed through the platform. Because the required role is a privileged application role, realistic risk is bounded to malicious insiders or adversaries who already hold a high-privilege operator foothold; no public exploit code and no CISA KEV activity were identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS score of 1.16% (66th percentile) indicates low observed exploitation likelihood. Patch guidance is published in TeamViewer security bulletin TV-2025-1006.

RemediationAI

Apply the vendor fix referenced in TeamViewer security bulletin TV-2025-1006 (https://www.teamviewer.com/en/resources/trust-center/security-bulletins/tv-2025-1006/); the provided intelligence does not include an explicit fixed version number, so the bulletin's listed release or hotfix for the Tachyon/1E core components must be used to identify the exact upgrade target rather than assuming any version. Until that update is verified deployed, reduce exposure by cutting back the Actioner role to the smallest possible set of trusted accounts and reviewing existing assignments, accepting the operational trade-off that fewer staff can run instructions and change requests will queue on the remaining operators. Enforce MFA and centralized logging on privileged role grants and on instruction execution so that unexpected CheckSimpleIoC invocations can be detected, and monitor agent-side process creation on managed endpoints for command lines originating from Tachyon instruction handlers. Where the business permits, restrict the DEX server's management reachability (segment it from general user networks and limit outbound instruction delivery to known endpoint subnets) and temporarily disable or remove the vulnerable instruction from any exposed instruction set if the platform allows it, understanding that doing so may break legitimate IoC-checking workflows. Rotation of credentials for Actioner accounts should follow any suspected abuse, since injected commands execute with the DEX agent's elevated rights on every targeted device.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

TeamViewer DEX (Digital Employee Experience, the rebranded 1E DEX platform) is built on the Tachyon endpoint-management architecture, in which a central server dispatches named 'instructions' to agents running with elevated privileges on managed Windows endpoints. This CVE affects the specific instruction 1E-Explorer-TachyonCore-CheckSimpleIoC, whose parameters are not properly validated (CWE-20, Improper Input Validation) before being passed into an execution context, allowing an Actioner-privileged user to smuggle arbitrary command content through the instruction and have it run in the agent's elevated context on every targeted device. The affected-product CPE, cpe:2.3:a:teamviewer:digital_employee_experience:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, uses a wildcard version, so the advisory does not enumerate a limited version band and all deployed DEX/Tachyon server releases should be treated as potentially affected until matched against the vendor bulletin. Our independent assessment raises the score above NVD's 7.2 by treating the impact as scope-changing (S:C) and the prerequisite as the lower-privileged end of the authenticated role spectrum (PR:L) while agreeing on AV:N, AC:L, UI:N, and full C/I/A impact on the endpoints; NVD's own vector (PR:H, S:U) reflects the same attack with a stricter view of the required Actioner privilege. In both readings the attacker must be an authenticated platform user, not an anonymous network client.

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Severity by source

Vendor (teamviewer) PRIMARY 7.2 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI 9.9 CRITICAL

Actioner is a delegated functional role rather than full admin (PR:L); commands run on separate managed endpoints, crossing an authority boundary (S:C); full compromise of those devices gives C/I/A:H.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Primary rating from Vendor (teamviewer).

CVSS VectorVendor: teamviewer

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

DescriptionCVE.org

A command injection vulnerability was discovered in TeamViewer DEX (former 1E DEX), specifically within the 1E-Explorer-TachyonCore-CheckSimpleIoC instruction. Improper input validation, allowing authenticated attackers with Actioner privileges to inject arbitrary commands. Exploitation enables remote execution of elevated commands on devices connected to the platform.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

TeamViewer DEX (formerly 1E DEX) contains a high-severity command injection vulnerability that could allow a user with the privileged Actioner role to execute arbitrary elevated commands on managed devices. The primary risk is from malicious insiders or adversaries who already hold a high-privilege operator account, which could lead to unauthorized control over endpoints and potential data compromise. No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the potential for insider abuse warrants management attention.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Enforce least privilege for the Actioner role, monitor and restrict use of the CheckSimpleIoC instruction, implement network segmentation and endpoint detection, and follow TeamViewer security bulletin TV-2025-1006 for additional guidance.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
1.2%
Top 34% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche enterprise endpoint/digital-employee-experience platform, limited deployment footprint
Data Quality
3 sources
Confidence: Low

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 1.2%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact
High

Priority Score

37
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: +1
CVSS: +36
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

OS command injection occurs when an application passes unsanitized user input directly into system shell commands.

Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org

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