Forensit AppX Management Service 2.2.0.4 unquoted search path

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A vulnerability was found in Forensit AppX Management Service 2.2.0.4. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-36989. Local access is required to approach this attack. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in Forensit AppX Management Service 2.2.0.4 and classified 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:

ForensiT AppX Management Service 2.2.0.4 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local users to potentially execute arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted path in the service configuration to inject malicious code that would execute with LocalSystem account permissions during service startup.

The weakness was disclosed by Burhanettin Özgenç as 48821. The advisory is available at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-36989 since 01/27/2026. 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.

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• Forensit

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• AppX Management Service

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• 2.2.0.4

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