CVE-2025-71178: Micron Technology, Inc Crucial Storage Executive

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Crucial Storage Executive installer versions prior to 11.08.082025.00 contain a DLL preloading vulnerability. During installation, the installer runs with elevated privileges and loads Windows DLLs using an uncontrolled search path, which can cause a malicious DLL placed alongside the installer to be loaded instead of the intended system library. A local attacker who can convince a victim to run the installer from a directory containing the attacker-supplied DLL can achieve arbitrary code execution with administrator privileges.

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Published 2026-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.