7.8high

CVE-2016-20093

Wise Care 365 4.27 and Wise Disk Cleaner 9.29 Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation

Published 4 mo ago · modified 39 d ago · JSON

CVSS
7.8
v3.1 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.2%
percentile 7%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Wise Care 365 4.27 and Wise Disk Cleaner 9.29 contain unquoted service path vulnerabilities in the WiseBootAssistant and SpyHunter 4 Service respectively, allowing local users to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. Attackers can insert malicious executables in the system root path that execute during service startup or system reboot with elevated privileges.

CISA SSVC assessment

Exploitation
Proof of concept public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.18% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
CNA4.08.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA3.17.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA4.08.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CNA3.17.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Wisecleaner Wise Care 365
  • Wisecleaner Wise Disk Cleaner

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-428 Unquoted Search Path or Element

References

Sources

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