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CVE-2025-10549: DLL Hijacking in EfficientLab Controlio Leads to Local Privilege Escalation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-04-23 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-427

Description

EfficientLab Controlio before v1.3.95 contains a DLL hijacking vulnerability caused by weak folder permissions in the installation directory. A local attacker can place a specially crafted DLL in this directory and achieve arbitrary code execution with highest privileges, because the affected service runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

Affected products

• EfficientLab, LLC Controlio: before 1.3.95

References

• https://kb.controlio.net/hc/en-us/articles/45777908471185-Client-Update-April-15-2026-ver-1-3-95
• https://r.sec-consult.com/controlio
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2026/Apr/19

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