CVE-2024-9490: Silabs.com Silicon Labs IDE 8-Bit

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in Silicon Labs (8-bit) IDE installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.

Affected products

• Silabs.com Silicon Labs IDE 8-Bit: up to and including 5.50

Published 2025-01-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.