CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-20056

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

Spy Emergency build 23.0.205 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the SpyEmrgHealth and SpyEmrgSrv services, allowing local attackers to escalate privileges by inserting malicious executables. Attackers can place executable files in the unquoted service path and trigger service restart or system reboot to execute code with LocalSystem privileges.

Risk Assessment

The risk for the organization is the potential for local privilege escalation, which could lead to system compromise by an unauthorized user executing code with the highest privileges.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update Spy Emergency to the latest version that fixes this vulnerability and ensure that service paths are properly quoted in the configuration.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Spy Emergency build 23.0.205 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the SpyEmrgHealth and SpyEmrgSrv services that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by inserting malicious executables. Attackers can place executable files in the unquoted service path and trigger service restart or system reboot to execute code with LocalSystem privileges.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS