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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.4 Medium

CVE-2025-7676

DLL hijacking of all PE32 executables on Windows 11 for ARM CPUs

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Microsoft, Inc Windows 11

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 24H2affected

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