CVE-2017-6189

high

Published 2017-03-15 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.3

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Amazon Kindle for PC before 1.19 allows local users to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory of the Kindle Setup installer.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

72%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
amazon	kindle_for_pc	`{"endIncluding":"1.17.44183"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-426

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.