CVE-2017-7180
Description
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Net Monitor for Employees Pro < 5.3.4 - Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| eduiq | net_monitor_for_employees | {"endIncluding":"5.3.4"} | |
References
CWEs
CWE-428
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.