CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-5232

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-03-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-426

Description

All editions of Rapid7 Nexpose installers prior to version 6.4.24 contain a DLL preloading vulnerability, wherein it is possible for the installer to load a malicious DLL located in the current working directory of the installer.

Affected configurations

• rapid7 nexpose (<= 6.4.23)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness

References