CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7884

8.4 HIGH Published 2017-06-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

In Adam Kropelin adk0212 APC UPS Daemon through 3.14.14, the default installation of APCUPSD allows a local authenticated, but unprivileged, user to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges by replacing the service executable apcupsd.exe with a malicious executable that will run with SYSTEM privileges at startup. This occurs because of "RW NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users" permissions for %SYSTEMDRIVE%\apcupsd\bin\apcupsd.exe.

Affected configurations

• apcupsd apc ups daemon (<= 3.14.14)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References