# CVE-2025-69784: A local, non-privileged attacker can abuse a vulnerable IOCTL interface exposed by the OpenEDR 2.5.1.0 kernel driver to modify the DLL injec

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-03-16 · Updated: 2026-03-16

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

A local, non-privileged attacker can abuse a vulnerable IOCTL interface exposed by the OpenEDR 2.5.1.0 kernel driver to modify the DLL injection path used by the product. By redirecting this path to a user-writable location, an attacker can cause OpenEDR to load an attacker-controlled DLL into high-privilege processes. This results in arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges, leading to full compromise of the affected system.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://scavengersecurity.com/posts/edr-as-rootkit-2/
- https://github.com/ComodoSecurity/openedr
- https://www.openedr.com/
- https://gist.github.com/ikerl/c3ec81f12ded44c2e0ae2dfdacb562ba
- https://github.com/ComodoSecurity/openedr/issues/49

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