CWE-427
Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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.
CVE-2025-20015 (GCVE-0-2025-20015)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 21:01 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path element for some Intel(R) Ethernet Connection software before version 29.4 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | Intel(R) Ethernet Connection software |
Affected:
before version 29.4
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CVE-2025-20017 (GCVE-0-2025-20017)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-12 16:57 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:49
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) oneAPI Toolkit and component software installers may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | Intel(R) oneAPI Toolkit and component software installers |
Affected:
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CVE-2025-20041 (GCVE-0-2025-20041)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 21:01 – Updated: 2025-05-14 14:06
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) Graphics software for Intel(R) Arc™ graphics and Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe graphics before version 32.0.101.6325/32.0.101.6252 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | Intel(R) Graphics software for Intel(R) Arc™ graphics and Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe graphics |
Affected:
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CVE-2025-20043 (GCVE-0-2025-20043)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 21:01 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) RealSense™ SDK software before version 2.56.2 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | Intel(R) RealSense™ SDK software |
Affected:
before version 2.56.2
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CVE-2025-20048 (GCVE-0-2025-20048)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-12 16:58 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:49
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path for the Intel(R) Trace Analyzer and Collector software all verions may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
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| n/a | Intel(R) Trace Analyzer and Collector software |
Affected:
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CVE-2025-20050 (GCVE-0-2025-20050)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-11 16:49 – Updated: 2026-02-26 16:57
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) CIP software before version WIN_DCA_2.4.0.11001 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable local code execution. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires active user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
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| n/a | Intel(R) CIP software |
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before version WIN_DCA_2.4.0.11001
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CVE-2025-20065 (GCVE-0-2025-20065)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-11 16:49 – Updated: 2025-11-12 20:02
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path for some Display Virtualization for Windows OS software before version 1797 within Ring 2: Device Drivers may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires active user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
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| n/a | Display Virtualization for Windows OS software |
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CVE-2025-20079 (GCVE-0-2025-20079)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 21:02 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) Advisor software may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | Intel(R) Advisor software |
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CVE-2025-20092 (GCVE-0-2025-20092)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-12 16:58 – Updated: 2025-08-12 19:14
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path for some Clock Jitter Tool software before version 6.0.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | Clock Jitter Tool software |
Affected:
before version 6.0.1
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CVE-2025-20106 (GCVE-0-2025-20106)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-10 16:25 – Updated: 2026-02-26 15:04
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path in some software installer for some VTune(TM) Profiler software and Intel(R) oneAPI Base Toolkits before version 2025.0. within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires active user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- Escalation of Privilege
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | VTune(TM) Profiler software and Intel(R) oneAPI Base Toolkits |
Affected:
before version 2025.0.
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Mitigation
Phases: Architecture and Design, Implementation
Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction
Description:
- 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
Phase: Implementation
Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction
Description:
- 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
Phase: Implementation
Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction
Description:
- 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
Phase: Implementation
Description:
- 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
Phase: Implementation
Description:
- 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.