5.4Medium

CVE-2025-7676DLL hijacking of all PE32 executables on Windows 11 for ARM CPUs

Microsoft, Inc Windows 11 Published: (1 year ago)

Description

DLL hijacking of all PE32 executables when run on Windows for ARM64 CPU architecture. This allows an attacker to execute code, if the attacker can plant a DLL in the same directory as the executable. Vulnerable versions of Windows 11 for ARM attempt to load Base DLLs that would ordinarily not be loaded from the application directory. Fixed in release 24H2, but present in all earlier versions of Windows 11 for ARM CPUs.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-427

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
Microsoft, Inc Windows 11 < 24H2

References and patches