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CVE-2025-11772: Co-Installer Privilege Escalation
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 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: 2025-12-01 · updated 2026-10-18
- Weakness: CWE-427
Description
A carefully crafted DLL, copied to C:\ProgramData\Synaptics folder, allows a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges during driver installation.
Affected products
- Synaptics Fingerprint Driver: from 5.5.3521.1066 before 5.5.3537.1066; from 5.5.4012.1052 before 5.5.4022.1052 — fixed in 5.5.3537.1066, 5.5.4022.1052
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Synaptics Fingerprint Driver 5.5.3537.1066, 5.5.4022.1052. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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