CWE-427
Allowed-with-ReviewUncontrolled Search Path Element
Abstraction: Base · Status: Draft
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-2023-6235 (GCVE-0-2023-6235)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-21 12:24 – Updated: 2024-08-02 08:21- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duet Display | Duet Display for Windows 10+ |
Affected:
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CVE-2023-6132 (GCVE-0-2023-6132)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-29 17:40 – Updated: 2024-08-22 18:02- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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| AVEVA | AVEVA Edge |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 2020 R2 SP2
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CVE-2023-5463 (GCVE-0-2023-5463)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-09 21:31 – Updated: 2024-08-02 07:59- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path
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CVE-2023-4931 (GCVE-0-2023-4931)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-27 14:12 – Updated: 2024-08-02 07:44- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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CVE-2023-4770 (GCVE-0-2023-4770)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-30 13:32 – Updated: 2024-08-02 07:37- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-08 21:58 – Updated: 2024-09-03 20:11- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-03 10:55 – Updated: 2025-02-27 21:11- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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CVE-2023-3091 (GCVE-0-2023-3091)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-03 23:31 – Updated: 2024-08-02 06:41 Unsupported When Assigned- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path
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CVE-2023-3078 (GCVE-0-2023-3078)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-17 16:47 – Updated: 2024-10-08 16:26- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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CVE-2023-2355 (GCVE-0-2023-2355)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-27 18:45 – Updated: 2025-01-30 20:49| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://security-advisory.acronis.com/advisories/… | vendor-advisory |
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acronis | Acronis Snap Deploy |
Affected:
unspecified , < 3900
(semver)
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Mitigation
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
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
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
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
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.