CVE-2025-11772

Co-Installer Privilege Escalation

State: Published
Severity: 6.6 Medium
Published: Dec 1, 2025
Updated: Dec 1, 2025
Reserved: Oct 14, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.6 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Synaptics

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Synaptics Fingerprint DriverSynaptics	5.5.3521.1066 to before 5.5.3537.1066Affected 5.5.4012.1052 to before 5.5.4022.1052Affected

References

https://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/2025-12/fingerprint-driver-co-installer-security-brief-2025-12-01.pdf

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