Rufus security vulnerabilities

Rufus is a reliable USB formatting tool developed by Pete Batard as an individual developer. Versions of Rufus 4.11 and earlier contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from race conditions during the creation, validation, and execution of Fido PowerShell scripts, which...

CVE-2025-26624 Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. A DLL hijacking vulnerability in Rufus 4.6.2208 and earlier versions allows an attacker loading and executing a malicious DLL with escalated privileges since the executable has been granted higher privileges during the tim...

CVE-2025-26624 Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. A DLL hijacking vulnerability in Rufus 4.6.2208 and earlier versions allows an attacker loading and executing a malicious DLL with escalated privileges since the executable has been granted higher privileges during the tim...

PT-2025-7219 · Rufus · Rufus

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Rufus versions 4.6.2208 and earlier Description: Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. A DLL hijacking vulnerability in Rufus allows an attacker to load and execute a malicious DLL with escalated privilege...