Filehorse Motorola Device Manager 2.4.5/2.5.4 PST Service ForwardDaemon.exe unquoted search path

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Filehorse Motorola Device Manager 2.4.5/2.5.4. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file ForwardDaemon.exe of the component PST Service. The manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-36981. Local access is required to approach this attack. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in Filehorse Motorola Device Manager 2.4.5/2.5.4. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file ForwardDaemon.exe of the component PST 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:

Motorola Device Manager 2.4.5 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the PST Service that allows local users to potentially execute arbitrary code. Attackers can exploit the unquoted path in ForwardDaemon.exe to inject malicious code that will execute with elevated system privileges during service startup.

The weakness was disclosed by Angel Canseco as 49011. The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-36981 since 01/27/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. 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 (49011). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Filehorse

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• Motorola Device Manager

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• 2.4.5
• 2.5.4

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• commercial

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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