CVE-2026-25190

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?

The word Remote in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. This means an attacker or victim needs to execute code from the local machine to exploit the vulnerability.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What does the user need to do to allow for success?

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing a user to extract and run a specially crafted installer from an untrusted directory. When executed, Windows may load a malicious DLL due to unsafe dependency loading behavior in gdi32full.dll, resulting in arbitrary code execution.