CVE-2020-36879 (GCVE-0-2020-36879)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-05 17:18 – Updated: 2025-12-05 17:18
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Summary
Flexsense DiskBoss 11.7.28 allows unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges using any of its services, enabling remote code execution during startup or reboot with escalated privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted service path vulnerability by specifying a malicious service name in the 'sc qc' command, allowing them to execute arbitrary system commands.
Severity ?
8.5 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-428 - Unquoted Search Path or Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Flexsense DiskBoss Affected: 11.7.28
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Credits
Mohammed Alshehri, m507
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