Akeo Consulting Rufus 3.0 and earlier is affected by: DLL search order hijacking.

published 2019-07-19 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-1847

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits: 0; none known

Akeo Consulting Rufus 3.0 and earlier is affected by: DLL search order hijacking. The impact is: Arbitrary code execution WITH escalation of privilege. The component is: Executable installers, portable executables (ALL executables on the web site). The attack vector is: CAPEC-471, CWE-426, CWE-427.

Exploit prediction

1.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Akeo Consulting Rufus

Classification

Weakness

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path
CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

seclists.org /oss-sec/2018/q2/146
mailing-list, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-1010100
NVD CVE-2019-1010100

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Summary