Network-Inventory-Advisor Network Inventory Advisor 5.0.26.0 Niaservice Service unquoted search path

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A vulnerability has been found in Network-Inventory-Advisor Network Inventory Advisor 5.0.26.0 and classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Niaservice Service. The manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-25747. An attack has to be approached locally. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Network-Inventory-Advisor Network Inventory Advisor 5.0.26.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Niaservice 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:

Network Inventory Advisor 5.0.26.0 installs the niaservice service with an unquoted binary path that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by placing malicious executables in intermediate directories. Attackers can exploit the unquoted path in the service configuration to execute arbitrary code with LocalSystem privileges when the service starts or restarts.

The weakness was shared by Samuel Diazl as 47584. The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-25747 since 06/19/2026. 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 (47584). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Network-Inventory-Advisor

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• Network Inventory Advisor

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• 5.0.26.0

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