Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-2231 - Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Mlit Denshiseikabutsusakuseishienkensa

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

Summary

Untrusted search path vulnerability in The installer of MLIT DenshiSeikabutsuSakuseiShienKensa system Ver3.02 and earlier, distributed till June 20, 2017, The self-extracting archive including the installer of MLIT DenshiSeikabutsuSakuseiShienKensa system Ver3.02 and earlier, distributed till June 20, 2017 allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mlit
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.