CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-40979

7.0 HIGH Published 2025-09-10 Modified 2026-09-30 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-09-10
Last modified
2026-09-30
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/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
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

DLL search order hijacking vulnerability in the wave.exe executable for Windows 11, version 1.27.8. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow attackers with local access to execute arbitrary code by placing an arbitrary file in the 'C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\Temp' directory, which could lead to arbitrary code execution and persistence. This vulnerability is only replicable in versions of Windows 11 and does not affect earlier versions.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

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