Clevo HotKey Clipboard 2.1.0.6 HKClipSvc Service unquoted search path

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Clevo HotKey Clipboard 2.1.0.6. This impacts an unknown function of the component HKClipSvc Service. Such manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-53984. Local access is required to approach this attack. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in Clevo HotKey Clipboard 2.1.0.6 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component HKClipSvc 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. CVE summarizes:

Clevo HotKey Clipboard 2.1.0.6 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the HKClipSvc service that allows local non-privileged users to potentially execute code with system privileges. Attackers can exploit the misconfigured service path to inject and execute arbitrary code by placing malicious executables in specific file system locations.

The weakness was disclosed by Wim Jaap Van Vliet as 51206. The advisory is available at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-53984 since 12/20/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1574.009 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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 (51206). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Forum Software

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• Clevo

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• HotKey Clipboard

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• 2.1.0.6

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