CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-11742
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-30
- 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-426
Description
The writeRandomBytes_RtlGenRandom function in xmlparse.c in libexpat in Expat 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse ADVAPI32.DLL in the current working directory because of an untrusted search path, aka DLL hijacking.
Affected configurations
• libexpat project libexpat 2.2.1
• libexpat project libexpat 2.2.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100147 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/82 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100147 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/82 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory