CVE-2026-9169: LUCID Vision Labs: DLL Search Order Hijacking in Arena SDK 1.0.80.49 on Windows

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 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: 2026-08-07 · updated 2026-10-24
Weakness: CWE-427

Description

DLL Search Order Hijacking in LUCID Vision Labs Arena SDK 1.0.80.49 on Windows allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application by placing a malicious DLL in a user-controlled directory listed in the PATH environment variable, which the SDK traverses when a required dependency is not found locally.

Affected products

LUCID Vision Labs Arena SDK: 1.0.80.49

References

https://arenasdk.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ArenaSDK_ReleaseNotes_v1.0.85.11.txt
https://thinklucid.com/downloads-hub/

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