CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10717
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-254
Description
A vulnerability in the encryption and permission implementation of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware consumer version 2.2.1 and prior (fixed in 3.0.4) allows an attacker to take control of the whitelisting feature (exclusions.dat under %SYSTEMDRIVE%\ProgramData) to permit execution of unauthorized applications including malware and malicious websites. Files blacklisted by Malwarebytes Malware Protect can be executed, and domains blacklisted by Malwarebytes Web Protect can be reached through HTTP.
Affected configurations
• malwarebytes malwarebytes anti-malware 2.2.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.securitytube.net/video/16690 Third Party Advisory
- https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/158251-malwarebytes-hall-of-fame/ Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/mspaling/mbam-exclusions-poc- Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mspaling/mbam-exclusions-poc-/blob/master/mbam-whitelist-poc.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF5ic5nOoUY Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytube.net/video/16690 Third Party Advisory
- https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/158251-malwarebytes-hall-of-fame/ Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/mspaling/mbam-exclusions-poc- Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mspaling/mbam-exclusions-poc-/blob/master/mbam-whitelist-poc.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF5ic5nOoUY Third Party Advisory