CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-42563

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-11-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-428

Description

There is an Unquoted Service Path in NI Service Locator (nisvcloc.exe) in versions prior to 18.0 on Windows. This may allow an authorized local user to insert arbitrary code into the unquoted service path and escalate privileges.

Affected configurations

• ni ni service locator (< 18.0.0.49152)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-428 Unquoted Search Path or Element weakness

References