CVE-2025-52541

High

Published: 11 February 2026

Published

11 February 2026

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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CVSS Score 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0001 0.6th percentile

Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-52541 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Amd (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique DLL Search Order Hijacking (T1038); ranked at the 0.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to DLL Search Order Hijacking (T1038) and 2 other techniques.

Threat & Defense Details

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1038 DLL Search Order Hijacking Persistence

Windows systems use a common method to look for required DLLs to load into a program.

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T1574.002 DLL Side-Loading Stealth

Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by side-loading DLLs.

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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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Why these techniques?

CVE directly describes DLL hijacking (CWE-427) enabling local privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

A DLL hijacking vulnerability in Vivado could allow a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-52541 is a DLL hijacking vulnerability (CWE-427) in Vivado that could allow a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and was published on 2026-02-11T15:16:15.403.

A local attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability, which has low attack complexity (AC:L) but requires user interaction (UI:R). Successful exploitation enables privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

AMD has published security bulletin AMD-SB-8013 with details on the vulnerability at https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-8013.html.