CVE-2018-9859 in Whale

Summary

The path of Whale update service was unquoted in NAVER Whale before 1.0.40.7. This vulnerability can be used for persistent privilege escalation if it's available to create an executable file with System privilege by other vulnerable applications.

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• Reservation: 04/09/2018
• Disclosure: 06/15/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-119622 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.9
• EPSS: 0.00478
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-9859
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9859
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-9859/