PhishWall Client up to 5.1.26 on Firefox/Chrome Search Path untrusted search path

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in PhishWall Client up to 5.1.26 on Firefox/Chrome. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation as part of Search Path leads to untrusted search path. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2018-0552. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in PhishWall Client up to 5.1.26 on Firefox/Chrome. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. 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:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in The installer of PhishWall Client Firefox and Chrome edition for Windows Ver. 5.1.26 and earlier allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

The bug was discovered 03/15/2018. The weakness was released 03/22/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at jvn.jp. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-0552 since 11/27/2017. Attacking locally is a requirement. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1574 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 7 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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

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• PhishWall Client

Version

• 5.1.0
• 5.1.1
• 5.1.2
• 5.1.3
• 5.1.4
• 5.1.5
• 5.1.6
• 5.1.7
• 5.1.8
• 5.1.9
• 5.1.10
• 5.1.11
• 5.1.12
• 5.1.13
• 5.1.14
• 5.1.15
• 5.1.16
• 5.1.17
• 5.1.18
• 5.1.19
• 5.1.20
• 5.1.21
• 5.1.22
• 5.1.23
• 5.1.24
• 5.1.25
• 5.1.26

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