CVE-2025-26624 – Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2025-26624

18 Feb 2025 — 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... • https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/commit/74dfa49707fd626b58d776d3400295740a29e23e • CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element •