Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-17069 - Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Amazon Audible 2.34.0/2.44.1

047910
CVSS 9.3 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
amazon
microsoft
CWE-426
critical

Summary

ActiveSetupN.exe in Amazon Audible for Windows before November 2017 allows attackers to execute arbitrary DLL code if ActiveSetupN.exe is launched from a directory where an attacker has already created a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll file.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Amazon
2
OS
Microsoft
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths
    This attack loads a malicious resource into a program's standard path used to bootstrap and/or provide contextual information for a program like a path variable or classpath. J2EE applications and other component based applications that are built from multiple binaries can have very long list of dependencies to execute. If one of these libraries and/or references is controllable by the attacker then application controls can be circumvented by the attacker. A standard UNIX path looks similar to this If the attacker modifies the path variable to point to a locale that includes malicious resources then the user unwittingly can execute commands on the attackers' behalf: This is a form of usurping control of the program and the attack can be done on the classpath, database resources, or any other resources built from compound parts. At runtime detection and blocking of this attack is nearly impossible, because the configuration allows execution.

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/145202/amazonaudible-escalate.txt
idPACKETSTORM:145202
last seen2017-12-06
published2017-12-04
reporterHimanshu Mehta
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/145202/Amazon-Audible-DLL-Hijacking.html
titleAmazon Audible DLL Hijacking