CVE-2024-9496 (GCVE-0-2024-9496)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-24 14:38 – Updated: 2025-02-18 19:31
VLAI?
Summary
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the USBXpress Dev Kit
installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
Severity ?
8.6 (High)
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| silabs.com | USBXpress Dev Kit |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 3.5.1
(semver)
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Credits
Thanks to Sahil Shah and Shaurya for reporting this issue.
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