Silabs USBXpress Win 98SE Dev Kit up to 2.42 uncontrolled search path

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Silabs USBXpress Win 98SE Dev Kit up to 2.42. This impacts an unknown function. This manipulation causes uncontrolled search path. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-9499. The attack can only be executed locally. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Silabs USBXpress Win 98SE Dev Kit up to 2.42 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-427. The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the USBXpress Win 98SE Dev Kit installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.

The advisory is shared at community.silabs.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-9499 since 10/03/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/24/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Silabs

Name

• USBXpress Win 98SE Dev Kit

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.42

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