{"id":"CVE-2025-26624","aliases":["EUVD-2025-5101","GHSA-p8p5-r296-g2jv"],"status":"published","title":"Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions","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.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":6.8,"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","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00184,"percentile":0.08112,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-426","CWE-427"],"published":"2025-02-18T22:40:59Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:33Z","products":[{"vendor":"pbatard","product":"rufus"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/security/advisories/GHSA-p8p5-r296-g2jv","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/commit/74dfa49707fd626b58d776d3400295740a29e23e","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/26xxx/CVE-2025-26624.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-26624","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-26624","title":"Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions","description":"Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. 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Users are advised to upgrade as soon as version 4.7 becomes available. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.","status":"published","published":"2025-02-18T23:15:10.81Z","modified":"2026-06-17T09:02:09.147Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":6.8,"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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-426","CWE-427"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:10:51.445921Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2025-26624","title":"Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions","description":"Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. 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