CVE-2024-12168 DLL Hijacking in Yandex Telemost
High 8.4
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12168 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2024-12168 is a high-severity vulnerability in Yandex Telemost, published on 2 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12168 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Yandex Telemost. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12168/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12168/index.md)
Attackers can execute arbitrary code via DLL hijacking in Yandex Telemost due to an untrusted search path.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-12168?
CVE-2024-12168 is a high-severity vulnerability in Yandex Telemost, published on 2 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Yandex Telemost for Desktop before 2.7.0 has a DLL Hijacking Vulnerability because an untrusted search path is used.
Weakness: CWE-426
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12168?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Yandex Yandex Telemost.
How do I fix CVE-2024-12168?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12168 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-12168 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12168 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Yandex Telemost
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f6vc-7qmx-ffw4.