CVE-2025-26624 (GCVE-0-2025-26624)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-18 22:40 – Updated: 2025-02-19 15:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-19 15:02 UTC
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/security/advisor… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/commit/74dfa4970… | x_refsource_MISC |
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