CVE-2025-26624CWE-426CWE-427

Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions

Medium · published February 18, 2025

CVSS v4.0
6.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
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
EPSS
0.00184 · 7.6th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-426 · Untrusted Search Path; CWE-427 · Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Published
2025-02-18T22:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 FEB 22:40Z
    Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions
    cvelistv5