CVE-2026-25865: Yandex Punto Switcher

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Punto Switcher through 4.5.0.583 contains an unquoted search path element vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by exploiting the application's call to WinExec without a fully qualified path for RunDll32.exe when invoking shell32.dll Control_RunDLL input.dll. Attackers can place a malicious executable earlier in the search order to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the affected user.

Affected products

• Yandex Punto Switcher: up to and including 4.5.0.583

Published 2026-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-23.