CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-7180

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Net Monitor for Employees Pro up to version 5.3.4 has an unquoted service path, allowing a Security Feature Bypass of its application blocking design goal. A local attacker with the right privileges can execute the blocked application program.exe.

Risk Assessment

The risk is that a local attacker may execute applications that should be blocked, potentially leading to unauthorized access to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to the latest version of the software to eliminate the unquoted service path and implement additional security measures to protect against local attacks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Net Monitor for Employees Pro through 5.3.4 has an unquoted service path, which allows a Security Feature Bypass of its documented "Block applications" design goal. The local attacker must have privileges to write to program.exe in a protected directory, such as the %SYSTEMDRIVE% directory, and thus the issue is not interpreted as a direct privilege escalation. However, the local attacker might have the goal of executing program.exe even though program.exe is a blocked application.

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