CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6384
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-31
- 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])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-428
Description
Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in NSClient++ before 0.4.1.73 allows non-privileged local users to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the system via a malicious program.exe executable in the %SYSTEMDRIVE% folder.
Affected configurations
• nsclient nsclient\+\+ (< 0.4.1.73)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-428 Unquoted Search Path or Element weakness
References
- https://nsclient.org/blog/2018/01/30/CVE-2018-6384-0.3.9/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.on-x.com/sites/default/files/on-x_-_security_advisory_-_nsclient_-_cve-2018-6384.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://nsclient.org/blog/2018/01/30/CVE-2018-6384-0.3.9/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.on-x.com/sites/default/files/on-x_-_security_advisory_-_nsclient_-_cve-2018-6384.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory