{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-15264 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-15264 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2020-15264 is a high-severity vulnerability in chocolatey boxstarter, published on 20 Oct 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-15264 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-15264 is a high-severity vulnerability in chocolatey boxstarter, published on 20 Oct 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-15264 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: chocolatey boxstarter. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15264/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15264/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-15264","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15264/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-15264","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-rpgx-h675-r3jf"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Boxstarter installer","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Unprivileged users can escalate to SYSTEM privileges by placing a malicious DLL in a writable directory added to the system PATH by the Boxstarter installer.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"boxstarter","vendor":"chocolatey"}],"cvss":{"score":8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-73","name":"External Control of File Name or Path"},{"id":"CWE-668","name":"Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere"}],"description":"The Boxstarter installer before version 2.13.0 configures C:\\ProgramData\\Boxstarter to be in the system-wide PATH environment variable. However, this directory is writable by normal, unprivileged users. To exploit the vulnerability, place a DLL in this directory that a privileged service is looking for. For example, WptsExtensions.dll When Windows starts, it'll execute the code in DllMain() with SYSTEM privileges. Any unprivileged user can execute code with SYSTEM privileges. The issue is fixed in version 3.13.0","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Privilege Escalation in Boxstarter","id":"CVE-2020-15264","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Segfault in Tensorflow","id":"CVE-2020-15265"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"XSS in platform","id":"CVE-2020-15263"},"products":["boxstarter"],"published":"2020-10-20","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["chocolatey"]},"summary":"Unprivileged users can escalate to SYSTEM privileges by placing a malicious DLL in a writable directory added to the system PATH by the Boxstarter installer.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15264/"}