Foxit, Epic Games Store, MedDreams vulnerabilities

Cisco Talos' Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed three vulnerabilities in Foxit PDF Editor, one in the Epic Games Store, and twenty-one in MedDream PACS. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco...

CVE-2025-61973

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Epic Games Store via the Microsoft Store. A low-privilege user can replace a DLL file during the installation process, which may result in unintended elevation of privileges...

CVE-2025-61973

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Epic Games Store via the Microsoft Store. A low-privilege user can replace a DLL file during the installation process, which may result in unintended elevation of privileges...

CVE-2025-61973

CVE-2025-61973 is a local privilege escalation in the Epic Games Store installation via Microsoft Store. Cisco Talos details a DLL hijacking path: a writable %TEMP% directory allows replacing dxupdate.dll, which DXSETUP.exe later loads with SYSTEM privileges, yielding elevation. Affected versions...

CVE-2025-61973

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Epic Games Store via the Microsoft Store. A low-privilege user can replace a DLL file during the installation process, which may result in unintended elevation of privileges...

EUVD-2026-2749

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Epic Games Store via the Microsoft Store. A low-privilege user can replace a DLL file during the installation process, which may result in unintended elevation of privileges...

CVE-2025-61973

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Epic Games Store via the Microsoft Store. A low-privilege user can replace a DLL file during the installation process, which may result in unintended elevation of privileges...

CVE-2025-61973

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Epic Games Store via the Microsoft Store. A low-privilege user can replace a DLL file during the installation process, which may result in unintended elevation of privileges...

CVE-2025-61973: Improper Access Control

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Epic Games Store via the Microsoft Store. A low-privilege user can replace a DLL file during the installation process, which may result in unintended elevation of privileges...

Epic Games Store security vulnerabilities

Epic Games Store is an online gaming platform operated by Epic Games, a company based in the United States. There is a security vulnerability in Epic Games Store, which stems from the ability for low-privilege users to replace DLL files during the installation process, potentially leading to an...

PT-2026-3020

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Epic Games Store via the Microsoft Store. A low-privilege user can replace a DLL file during the installation process, which may result in unintended elevation of privileges...

Epic Games Store Installation DLL Hijacking Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2025-2279 Epic Games Store Installation DLL Hijacking Privilege Escalation Vulnerability January 15, 2026 CVE Number CVE-2025-61973 SUMMARY A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Epic Games Store via the Microsoft Store. A...

Wilder World Launches on Epic Games Store as The First ‘GTA of Web3’ Game

By Uzair Amir Wilder World, a massively multiplayer online metaverse, is now available for wishlisting on the Epic Games Store, a… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Wilder World Launches on Epic Games Store as The First ‘GTA of Web3’ Game...

Years into these games’ histories, attackers are still creating “Fortnite” and “Roblox”-related scams

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I have no idea how "Fortnite" keeps coming up in this newsletter, but here we are again. Even though the game/metaverse has never been bigger, it had been a while since I had heard about "V-Bucks" scams. V-Bucks are the in-game virtua...