CVE-2025-4455

HIGH

Patch My PC Home Updater <5.1.3.0 - Uncontrolled Search Path

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability was found in Patch My PC Home Updater up to 5.1.3.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing in the library advapi32.dll/BCrypt.dll/comctl32.dll/crypt32.dll/dwmapi.dll/gdi32.dll/gdiplus.dll/imm32.dll/iphlpapi.dll/kernel32.dll/mscms.dll/msctf.dll/ntdll.dll/ole32.dll/oleaut32.dll/PresentationNative_cor3.dll/secur32.dll/shcore.dll/shell32.dll/sspicli.dll/System.IO. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 13.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-426 CWE-427
Status published
Products (4)
Patch My PC/Home Updater 5.1.0
Patch My PC/Home Updater 5.1.1
Patch My PC/Home Updater 5.1.2
Patch My PC/Home Updater 5.1.3.0
Published May 09, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026