CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-14418
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-01-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367
Description
A TOCTOU vulnerability exists in madCodeHook before 2020-07-16 that allows local attackers to elevate their privileges to SYSTEM. This occurs because path redirection can occur via vectors involving directory junctions.
Affected configurations
• cisco advanced malware protection (< 7.2.13)
• madshi madcodehook (< 4.1.3)
• morphisec unified threat prevention platform (< 3.5.9)
• morphisec unified threat prevention platform (>= 4.0 < 4.1.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness
References
- https://github.com/nettitude/metasploit-modules Product, Third Party Advisory
- https://labs.nettitude.com/blog/cve-2020-14418-madcodehook-library-local-privilege-escalation/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nettitude/metasploit-modules Product, Third Party Advisory
- https://labs.nettitude.com/blog/cve-2020-14418-madcodehook-library-local-privilege-escalation/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory