Arcsoft PhotoStudio up to 6.0.0.172 Exchange Service unquoted search path

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Arcsoft PhotoStudio up to 6.0.0.172. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Exchange Service. The manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-53946. Local access is required to approach this attack. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in Arcsoft PhotoStudio up to 6.0.0.172 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Exchange Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unquoted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-428. The product uses a search path that contains an unquoted element, in which the element contains whitespace or other separators. This can cause the product to access resources in a parent path. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Arcsoft PhotoStudio 6.0.0.172 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the ArcSoft Exchange Service that allows local attackers to escalate privileges. Attackers can place a malicious executable in the unquoted path and trigger the service to execute arbitrary code with system-level permissions.

The weakness was disclosed by msd0pe as 51393. It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-53946 since 12/16/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1574.009 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (51393). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Arcsoft

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• PhotoStudio

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• 6.0.0.172

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