CVE-2026-68955
The installer for Rakuten Kobo Desktop Application (Windows version) insecurely loads Dynamic Link Libraries. If there is a crafted DLL at the same directory when invoking the affected installer, arbitrary code may be executed with the privileges of the user who performed the installation.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.4
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.18%
- CWE
- CWE-427
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last modified
- 2026-09-14
Affected products
- Rakuten Kobo Inc. The installer for Rakuten Kobo Desktop Application (Windows version)
Weakness type
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