Pysoft Active WebCam 11.5 unquoted search path

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Pysoft Active WebCam 11.5. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2021-47790. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Pysoft Active WebCam 11.5. This issue affects some unknown functionality. 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:

Active WebCam 11.5 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. Attackers can exploit the misconfigured service path by placing malicious executables in specific directory locations to gain administrative access.

The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-47790 since 01/14/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574.009 for this issue.

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 (50273). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Pysoft

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• Active WebCam

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• 11.5

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