CVE-2025-7427 (GCVE-0-2025-7427)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-22 09:52 – Updated: 2025-07-25 03:55
VLAI?
Summary
Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Arm Development Studio before 2025 may allow an attacker to perform a DLL hijacking attack. Successful exploitation could lead to local arbitrary code execution in the context of the user running Arm Development Studio.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arm | Development Studio |
Affected:
0 , < 2025
(custom)
|
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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