7.2high

CVE-2017-31411 exploit

Windows service and uninstall paths are not quoted when BIND is installed

Published 7 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.2
v3.0 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.4%
percentile 73%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The BIND installer on Windows uses an unquoted service path which can enable a local user to achieve privilege escalation if the host file system permissions allow this. Affects BIND 9.2.6-P2->9.2.9, 9.3.2-P1->9.3.6, 9.4.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.10, 9.10.0->9.10.5, 9.11.0->9.11.1, 9.9.3-S1->9.9.10-S1, 9.10.5-S1.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.41% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-42121 BIND 9.10.5 - Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation · local · 2017-06-05

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
CNA3.07.2CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA3.07.2CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD3.07.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.07.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • ISC BIND 9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-428 Unquoted Search Path or Element

References

Sources

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