CVE-2025-26624 (GCVE-0-2025-26624)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-18 22:40 – Updated: 2025-02-19 15:02
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Title
Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions
Summary
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. A DLL hijacking vulnerability in Rufus 4.6.2208 and earlier versions allows an attacker loading and executing a malicious DLL with escalated privileges (since the executable has been granted higher privileges during the time of launch) due to the ability to inject a malicious `cfgmgr32.dll` in the same directory as the executable and have it side load automatically. This is fixed in commit `74dfa49`, which will be part of version 4.7. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as version 4.7 becomes available. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pbatard rufus Affected: < 4.7
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