CVE-2025-11772
Co-Installer Privilege Escalation
A carefully crafted DLL, copied to
C:\ProgramData\Synaptics
folder, allows a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges during driver installation.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Physical
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Co-Installer Privilege Escalation
A carefully crafted DLL, copied to
C:\ProgramData\Synaptics
folder, allows a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges during driver installation.
- Record
CVE-2025-11772- CVSS 3.1
- 6.6 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-427
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-200095
A carefully crafted DLL, copied to
C:\ProgramData\Synaptics
folder, allows a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges during driver installation.
- Record
EUVD-2025-200095- CVSS 3.1
- 6.6 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-8cxg-mfhg-9j6r
A carefully crafted DLL, copied to C:\ProgramData\Synaptics folder, allows a local user to...
A carefully crafted DLL, copied to
C:\ProgramData\Synaptics
folder, allows a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges during driver installation.
- Record
GHSA-8cxg-mfhg-9j6r- CVSS 3.1
- 6.6 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-427
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
A carefully crafted DLL, copied to
C:\ProgramData\Synaptics
folder, allows a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges during driver installation.
- Record
CVE-2025-11772- CVSS 3.1
- 6.6 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-427
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-11772 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.6) in Synaptics Fingerprint Driver, published December 1, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.18%, the 7th percentile. No source names a fixed version.