Security Advisory

CVE-2025-40979

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-09-10 11:35:57

Last updated 2025-09-10 20:23:37

Assigner INCIBE

State PUBLISHED

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>AppDataLocalTemp 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.

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