CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-20057

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.61%

45th percentile - higher than 45% of all known CVEs

Summary

NETGATE Registry Cleaner build 16.0.205 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the NGRegClnSrv service that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by exploiting the service binary path. Attackers can place a malicious executable in the unquoted 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 unauthorized system control and execution of malicious code with the highest privileges.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update NETGATE Registry Cleaner to the latest version that fixes this vulnerability, or to quote the service path in the system registry.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

NETGATE Registry Cleaner build 16.0.205 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the NGRegClnSrv service that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by exploiting the service binary path. Attackers can place a malicious executable in the unquoted path and trigger service restart or system reboot to execute code with LocalSystem privileges.

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