{"id":"CVE-2024-9497","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-9497","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:11:20.829Z","title":"DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the USBXpress 4 SDK installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.","description":"DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the USBXpress 4 SDK\n\n \n\n\n\n installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.","published":"2025-01-24T15:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:24:41.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"product-security@silabs.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.6,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-427"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00241,"percentile":0.15082,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.24%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://community.silabs.com/068Vm00000JUQwd","source":"product-security@silabs.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9497","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}