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AnyDesk < 9.0.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 298245

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of AnyDesk installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 9.0.5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

 - A denial of service vulnerability exists due to incorrect deserialization that results in failed memory allocation and a NULL pointer dereference. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to cause the application to stop responding. (CVE-2025-27917)

 - A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists due to an integer overflow via a UDP packet during processing of an Identity user image within the Discovery feature, or when establishing a connection between any two clients. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2025-27918)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to AnyDesk version 9.0.5 or later.

See Also

https://anydesk.com/en/changelog/windows

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 298245

File Name: anydesk_9_0_5.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 2/6/2026

Updated: 2/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:anydesk:anydesk

Required KB Items: installed_sw/AnyDesk

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27917, CVE-2025-27918