CVE-2020-27644 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local or remote authenticated attackers can gain elevated privileges by placing a malicious DLL in a temp directory due to unquoted service paths.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-27644?
CVE-2020-27644 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Dec 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Inventory module of the 1E Client 5.0.0.745 doesn't handle an unquoted path when executing %PROGRAMFILES%\1E\Client\Tachyon.Performance.Metrics.exe. This may allow remote authenticated users and local users to gain elevated privileges by placing a malicious cryptbase.dll file in %WINDIR%\Temp\.
Weakness: CWE-428
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-27644?
It affects 1 product.
Products include 1e Client.
How do I fix CVE-2020-27644?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-27644 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-27644 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-27644 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4684-g96f-9q97.