Remotemouse Remote Mouse 4.002 unquoted search path

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A vulnerability was found in Remotemouse Remote Mouse 4.002. It has been declared as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2021-47792. Local access is required to approach this attack. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in Remotemouse Remote Mouse 4.002. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. 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:

Remote Mouse 4.002 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted service path in the RemoteMouseService to inject malicious executables and gain administrative access.

The advisory is available at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2021-47792 since 01/14/2026. 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 (50258). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Remotemouse

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• Remote Mouse

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• 4.002

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