CVE-2024-9492 (GCVE-0-2024-9492)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-24 14:27 – Updated: 2025-01-27 18:08
VLAI?
Summary
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in Flash Programming Utility installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
Severity ?
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
https://community.silabs.com/068Vm00000JUQwd vendor-advisorypermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
silabs.com Flash Programming Utility Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.80 (semver)
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Credits
Thanks to Sahil Shah and Shaurya for reporting this issue.
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