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TeamViewer DEX CVE-2025-64992

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

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

  1. Access
    Obtain Actioner-privileged account
  2. Delivery
    Craft malicious input for PauseNomadJobQueue instruction
  3. Exploit
    Bypass input validation to inject commands
  4. Execution
    Execute elevated commands on connected devices
  5. Impact
    Compromise 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

Requires an authenticated account holding 'Actioner' privileges on the TeamViewer DEX (former 1E DEX) platform, and specifically the ability to invoke the 1E-Nomad-PauseNomadJobQueue instruction, which fails to properly validate input. Only versions prior to V25 are affected. The principal limiting factor is the high-privilege Actioner role (PR:H) - this is not remotely exploitable by an unauthenticated attacker, so realistic exploitation hinges on a malicious privileged insider or a compromised/stolen Actioner credential rather than opportunistic external attack.

Impact

This is a moderate-priority issue whose severity is tempered by a meaningful access barrier. The vendor CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H = 7.2 HIGH) describes network-reachable, low-complexity exploitation with no user interaction but requiring high privileges (PR:H) - consistent with the description's statement that an attacker must already hold 'Actioner' privileges within the platform. The signals point toward a lower-urgency profile than the HIGH rating alone suggests: EPSS is only 0.87% (58th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing (not actively exploited), and no public exploit code has been identified. No SSVC decision data was provided. The key tension is privilege: because exploitation presupposes an authenticated, privileged insider or a compromised Actioner account, real-world risk is dominated by insider-threat and account-takeover scenarios rather than opportunistic mass exploitation - which aligns with the modest EPSS. One divergence worth flagging to the vendor: the description says exploitation yields 'remote execution of elevated commands on devices connected to the platform,' which implies impact crossing from the DEX platform into managed endpoints (a scope change), yet the published vector uses S:U - verify whether S:C is more appropriate, as it would materially raise the score.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who has obtained an authenticated account with Actioner privileges on the TeamViewer DEX (formerly 1E DEX) platform - whether a malicious insider or via credential theft - submits a crafted input to the 1E-Nomad-PauseNomadJobQueue instruction. Due to improper input validation, the input is interpreted as shell commands, which are then executed with elevated privileges on endpoints connected to the platform. No public proof-of-concept or exploit code has been identified at the time of analysis.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
No patch listed yet 0.9% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 08, 2026

Command injection in TeamViewer DEX (formerly 1E DEX) versions prior to V25 allows an authenticated user holding 'Actioner' privileges to inject arbitrary commands through the 1E-Nomad-PauseNomadJobQueue instruction, resulting in remote execution of elevated commands on devices connected to the platform. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), and the assessed vector raises scope to Changed (S:C); the dominant mitigating factor is the high-privilege Actioner role required, meaning this is not exploitable by an unauthenticated attacker and realistic risk comes from a malicious privileged insider or a compromised/stolen Actioner credential. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no confirmed active exploitation (not in CISA KEV); EPSS is 0.87% (58th percentile), consistent with a moderate-priority issue whose severity is tempered by a meaningful access barrier.

RemediationAI

Upgrade TeamViewer DEX / 1E DEX to the V25 release or later, which is the boundary at which the affected version range ('prior to V25') ends; confirm the applicable fixed build and any backported maintenance releases in TeamViewer security bulletin TV-2025-1006 (https://www.teamviewer.com/en/resources/trust-center/security-bulletins/tv-2025-1006/), as no separate patch reference or exact fix build number is provided in the source data. Because exploitation requires an authenticated Actioner role, the most effective compensating control is privilege reduction: audit and tightly restrict which accounts hold Actioner privileges and the right to invoke the 1E-Nomad-PauseNomadJobQueue instruction, removing it from any account that does not operationally require it - the trade-off is reduced automation capability for the affected operators. Additionally enforce strong authentication and session protection (MFA, short-lived credentials, monitoring for anomalous Actioner sessions) to blunt the compromised-credential path, restrict the DEX management plane to trusted administrative networks, and alert on unexpected Nomad pause/resume queue activity originating from the DEX platform; these controls reduce but do not eliminate the insider risk, and none of them substitute for upgrading to V25 or later.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The affected component is the TeamViewer Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platform, formerly branded 1E DEX, tracked in NVD as cpe:2.3:a:teamviewer:digital_employee_experience:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*. The root cause is classified as CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) in the 1E-Nomad-PauseNomadJobQueue instruction: user-supplied input passed into that instruction is not sanitized before being handed to a command-execution context, so an attacker who can invoke the instruction can break out of the intended argument and execute arbitrary OS-level commands. Because DEX agents run with elevated rights on managed endpoints, successful injection propagates command execution at high privilege to devices connected to the platform, which is why the confidentiality, integrity and availability impacts are all rated High and why our assessment scores scope as Changed (S:C) relative to the vendor/NVD vector. The access prerequisite is explicit in the CVSS vector (PR:H): only an authenticated principal with Actioner privileges - the role permitted to invoke such instructions - can reach the vulnerable code path.

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Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY 7.2 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI 9.1 CRITICAL

Network-reachable platform instruction (AV:N/AC:L), requires privileged Actioner role (PR:H), and command execution crosses from the platform onto connected managed devices, so S:C with full C/I/A impact.

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

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

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

DescriptionNVD

A command injection vulnerability was discovered in TeamViewer DEX (former 1E DEX), specifically within the 1E-Nomad-PauseNomadJobQueue instruction prior V25. 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) installations running versions earlier than V25 contain a command injection flaw that would allow someone already holding the platform's high-privilege 'Actioner' role to execute arbitrary elevated commands across connected endpoints. Because the flaw requires a privileged account rather than anonymous access, the realistic exposure is a malicious insider or an attacker operating with stolen Actioner credentials - a narrow population, but one whose reach spans the entire DEX-managed device estate. Leadership should care because no vendor patch is currently available, so near-term risk reduction depends entirely on restricting and monitoring who holds Actioner rights.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: enforce least privilege by minimizing the number of accounts holding the Actioner role and removing any that are not strictly required; apply MFA and strong credential rotation to all Actioner accounts to reduce the risk of stolen-credential abuse; restrict and audit use of the 1E-Nomad-PauseNomadJobQueue instruction, disabling or gating it through change control if it is not operationally needed; enable verbose platform audit logging and SOC alerting for privileged instruction execution and unexpected elevated commands on managed endpoints; segregate DEX-managed device groups so a compromised Actioner account has the narrowest possible blast radius; and review privileged-account activity regularly for insider-threat indicators until a fixed release is deployed.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.9%
Top 42% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
specialized enterprise endpoint/digital-experience management suite, not universally deployed
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 0.9%
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.

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