CVE-2018-10959

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    CVE-2018-10959

    Published: 17 Apr 2019Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Avecto Defendpoint 4 prior to 4.4 SR6 and 5 prior to 5.1 SR1 has an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability, exploitable by modifying environment variables to trigger automatic elevation of an attacker's process launch.

    References: https://www.beyondtrust.com/docs/release-notes/privilege-management/windows-and-mac/windows/pm-windows-5-1.pdf, , https://hackandpwn.com/assets/2019-04-17-cve-2018-10959/Defendpoint_Windows_Client_Release_Notes_4.4.267.0_SR6.pdf, https://hackandpwn.com/assets/2019-04-17-cve-2018-10959/Defendpoint_Windows_Client_Release_Notes_5.1.149.0_SR1.pdf, https://hackandpwn.com/cve-2018-10959/, https://www.beyondtrust.com/docs/release-notes/privilege-management/windows-and-mac/windows/pm-windows-4-4-sr6.pdf

    Affected packages

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    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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