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CVE-2024-9490
Uncontrolled search path can lead to DLL hijacking in Silicon Labs IDE installer
High8.6EPSS 0.19%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Silabs
Description
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in Silicon Labs (8-bit) IDE installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| SilabsCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 92% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Weakness
Affected products
silabs.com · Silicon Labs IDE (8-bit)
- affected ≤ 5.50
References (1)
- https://community.silabs.com/068Vm00000JUQwd (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypermissions-required
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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