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Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-427

Allowed-with-Review

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Abstraction: Base · Status: Draft

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The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors.

1859 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

CVE-2024-57964 (GCVE-0-2024-57964)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-18 06:33 – Updated: 2025-02-18 15:50 Unsupported When Assigned
VLAI
Title
Insecure Loading of Dynamic Link Libraries in HVAC Energy Saving Program
Summary
Insecure Loading of Dynamic Link Libraries have been discovered in HVAC Energy Saving Program, which could allow local attackers to potentially disclose information or execute arbitray code on affected systems. This issue affects HVAC Energy Saving Program:.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-18 15:50 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Hitachi HVAC Energy Saving Program Affected: 0 , ≤ * (custom)
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Sahil Shah Shaurya
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CVE-2024-57963 (GCVE-0-2024-57963)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-18 06:33 – Updated: 2025-02-18 15:51 Unsupported When Assigned
VLAI
Title
Insecure Loading of Dynamic Link Libraries in USB-CONVERTERCABLE DRIVER
Summary
Insecure Loading of Dynamic Link Libraries have been discovered in USB-CONVERTERCABLE DRIVER, which could allow local attackers to potentially disclose information or execute arbitray code on affected systems. This issue affects USB-CONVERTERCABLE DRIVER:.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-18 15:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Hitachi USB-CONVERTERCABLE DRIVER Affected: 0 , ≤ * (custom)
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CVE-2024-55955 (GCVE-0-2024-55955)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-31 16:19 – Updated: 2025-03-05 04:55
VLAI
Summary
An incorrect permissions assignment vulnerability in Trend Micro Deep Security 20.0 agents between versions 20.0.1-9400 and 20.0.1-23340 could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations. Please note: an attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-04 00:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Deep Security Affected: 20 , < 20.0.1-23340 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:deep_security_agent:20.0:update10940:*:*:long_term_support:*:*:*
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CVE-2024-55898 (GCVE-0-2024-55898)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-24 02:01 – Updated: 2025-02-24 11:43
VLAI
Title
IBM i privilege escalation
Summary
IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 could allow a user with the capability to compile or restore a program to gain elevated privileges due to an unqualified library call. A malicious actor could cause user-controlled code to run with administrator privilege.
Severity
8.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-24 11:43 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM i Affected: 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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CVE-2024-55543 (GCVE-0-2024-55543)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-02 15:24 – Updated: 2025-01-02 17:10
VLAI
Summary
Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 16 (Windows) before build 39169.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-02 17:09 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect 16 Affected: unspecified , < 39169 (semver)
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Credits
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CVE-2024-55540 (GCVE-0-2024-55540)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-02 15:25 – Updated: 2025-01-02 17:09
VLAI
Summary
Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 16 (Windows) before build 39169.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-02 17:09 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect 16 Affected: unspecified , < 39169 (semver)
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Credits
@vanitas (https://hackerone.com/vanitas)
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CVE-2024-53977 (GCVE-0-2024-53977)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-11 10:28 – Updated: 2025-02-11 14:33
VLAI
Summary
A vulnerability has been identified in ModelSim (All versions < V2025.1), Questa (All versions < V2025.1). An example setup script contained in affected applications allows a specific executable file to be loaded from the current working directory. This could allow an authenticated local attacker to inject arbitrary code and escalate privileges in installations where administrators or processes with elevated privileges launch the script from a user-writable directory.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-11 14:32 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Siemens ModelSim Affected: 0 , < V2025.1 (custom)
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Siemens Questa Affected: 0 , < V2025.1 (custom)
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CVE-2024-50583 (GCVE-0-2024-50583)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-25 07:04 – Updated: 2024-10-25 20:17
VLAI
Summary
Whale browser Installer before 3.1.0.0 allows an attacker to execute a malicious DLL in the user environment due to improper permission settings.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-25 20:16 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Guenoh Park (Groro90), spear@kakao.com
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CVE-2024-49391 (GCVE-0-2024-49391)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-17 09:48 – Updated: 2024-10-17 14:39
VLAI
Summary
Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Files (Windows) before build 9.0.0x24.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-17 14:38 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Acronis Acronis Cyber Files Affected: unspecified , < 9.0.0x24 (semver)
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acronis cyber_files Affected: 0 , < 9.0.0x24 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:acronis:cyber_files:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
@satz4797 (https://hackerone.com/satz4797)
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CVE-2024-49390 (GCVE-0-2024-49390)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-17 09:49 – Updated: 2024-10-17 14:37
VLAI
Summary
Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Files (Windows) before build 9.0.0x24.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-17 14:24 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Acronis Acronis Cyber Files Affected: unspecified , < 9.0.0x24 (semver)
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acronis cyber_files Affected: 0 , < 9.0.0x24 (semver)
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Credits
@xdanes09 (https://hackerone.com/xdanes09)
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Mitigation
Architecture and Design Implementation

Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction

Hard-code the search path to a set of known-safe values (such as system directories), or only allow them to be specified by the administrator in a configuration file. Do not allow these settings to be modified by an external party. Be careful to avoid related weaknesses such as CWE-426 and CWE-428.

Mitigation
Implementation

Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction

When invoking other programs, specify those programs using fully-qualified pathnames. While this is an effective approach, code that uses fully-qualified pathnames might not be portable to other systems that do not use the same pathnames. The portability can be improved by locating the full-qualified paths in a centralized, easily-modifiable location within the source code, and having the code refer to these paths.

Mitigation
Implementation

Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction

Remove or restrict all environment settings before invoking other programs. This includes the PATH environment variable, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and other settings that identify the location of code libraries, and any application-specific search paths.

Mitigation
Implementation

Check your search path before use and remove any elements that are likely to be unsafe, such as the current working directory or a temporary files directory. Since this is a denylist approach, it might not be a complete solution.

Mitigation
Implementation

Use other functions that require explicit paths. Making use of any of the other readily available functions that require explicit paths is a safe way to avoid this problem. For example, system() in C does not require a full path since the shell can take care of finding the program using the PATH environment variable, while execl() and execv() require a full path.

CAPEC-38: Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths

This pattern of attack sees an adversary load a malicious resource into a program's standard path so that when a known command is executed then the system instead executes the malicious component. The adversary can either modify the search path a program uses, like a PATH variable or classpath, or they can manipulate resources on the path to point to their malicious components. J2EE applications and other component based applications that are built from multiple binaries can have very long list of dependencies to execute. If one of these libraries and/or references is controllable by the attacker then application controls can be circumvented by the attacker.

CAPEC-471: Search Order Hijacking

An adversary exploits a weakness in an application's specification of external libraries to exploit the functionality of the loader where the process loading the library searches first in the same directory in which the process binary resides and then in other directories. Exploitation of this preferential search order can allow an attacker to make the loading process load the adversary's rogue library rather than the legitimate library. This attack can be leveraged with many different libraries and with many different loading processes. No forensic trails are left in the system's registry or file system that an incorrect library had been loaded.

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