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CVE-2017-71801 exploit

Net Monitor for Employees Pro through 5.3.4 has an unquoted service path, which allows a Security Feature Bypass of its documented "Block a…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.3
v3.1 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.1%
percentile 64%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Net Monitor for Employees Pro through 5.3.4 has an unquoted service path, which allows a Security Feature Bypass of its documented "Block applications" design goal. The local attacker must have privileges to write to program.exe in a protected directory, such as the %SYSTEMDRIVE% directory, and thus the issue is not interpreted as a direct privilege escalation. However, the local attacker might have the goal of executing program.exe even though program.exe is a blocked application.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.05% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-42141 Net Monitor for Employees Pro < 5.3.4 - Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation · local · 2017-06-08

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.17.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.06.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-428 Unquoted Search Path or Element

References

  • exploit-db.com /exploits/42141/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred

Sources

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