Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-7180 - Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability in Eduiq NET Monitor for Employees

047910
CVSS 6.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
eduiq
CWE-428
exploit available

Summary

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.

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.

Exploit-Db

descriptionNet Monitor for Employees Pro < 5.3.4 - Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation. CVE-2017-7180. Local exploit for Windows platform
fileexploits/windows/local/42141.txt
idEDB-ID:42141
last seen2017-06-08
modified2017-06-08
platformwindows
port
published2017-06-08
reporterExploit-DB
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/42141/
titleNet Monitor for Employees Pro < 5.3.4 - Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation
typelocal

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/142867/nmep-escalate.txt
idPACKETSTORM:142867
last seen2017-06-09
published2017-06-08
reporterSaeid Atabaki
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142867/Net-Monitor-For-Employees-Pro-Privilege-Escalation.html
titleNet Monitor For Employees Pro Privilege Escalation