Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Arm Development Studio before 2025

published 2025-07-22 15 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-22307

cvss: 5.9; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits: 0; none known

Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Arm Development Studio before 2025 may allow an attacker to perform a DLL hijacking attack. Successful exploitation could lead to local arbitrary code execution in the context of the user running Arm Development Studio.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Arm Development Studio 2025

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 15 mo ago (2025-07-25)

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	3.1	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CNA	3.1	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected products

Arm Development Studio

Classification

Weakness

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

developer.arm.com /documentation/110691
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-7427
NVD CVE-2025-7427

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Summary