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.
                
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-426 CWE-427  | 
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2025-02-18T22:40:59.053Z
Updated: 2025-02-19T15:02:27.244Z
Reserved: 2025-02-12T14:51:02.719Z
Link: CVE-2025-26624
Updated: 2025-02-19T15:00:35.439Z
Status : Received
Published: 2025-02-18T23:15:10.810
Modified: 2025-02-18T23:15:10.810
Link: CVE-2025-26624
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