CVE-2024-9497 (GCVE-0-2024-9497)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-24 14:38
Modified
2025-08-27 21:36
Severity ?
8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Summary
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the USBXpress 4 SDK installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
silabs.com USBXpress 4 SDK Version: 0   ≤ 4.0.3
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