DLL Hijacking in Vivado Design Suite - Privilege Escalation
CVE-2025-52541 Published on February 11, 2026
A DLL hijacking vulnerability in Vivado could allow a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-52541 can be exploited with local system access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a DLL preloading Vulnerability?
The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors.
CVE-2025-52541 has been classified to as a DLL preloading vulnerability or weakness.
Affected Versions
AMD Vivado™ Installation (Windows) Version 2025.2 is unaffected by CVE-2025-52541Exploit Probability
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