A vulnerability was found in Code42 up to 7.0.2 on Windows and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component DLL Loader. The manipulation as part of a Search Path leads to a untrusted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Code42 server through 7.0.2 for Windows has an Untrusted Search Path. In certain situations, a non-administrative attacker on the local server could create or modify a dynamic-link library (DLL). The Code42 service could then load it at runtime, and potentially execute arbitrary code at an elevated privilege on the local server.

The weakness was shared 11/19/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared at code42.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-16861 since 09/24/2019. An attack has to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entry 145948 is related to this item.

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