CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-7360
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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-427
Description
An Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in SmartControl version 4.3.15 and versions released before April 15, 2020 may allow an authenticated user to escalate privileges by placing a specially crafted DLL file in the search path. This issue was fixed in version 1.0.7, which was released after April 15, 2020. (Note, the version numbering system changed significantly between version 4.3.15 and version 1.0.7.)
Affected configurations
• philips smartcontrol (<= 4.3.15)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- https://blog.vonahi.io/when-the-path-to-system-is-wide-open/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.vonahi.io/when-the-path-to-system-is-wide-open/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory