Schneider Electric Floating License Manager up to 1.4.0 unquoted search path

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Schneider Electric Floating License Manager up to 1.4.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component License Manager. The manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2014-0759. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Schneider Electric Floating License Manager up to 1.4.0 (SCADA Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component License Manager. 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:

Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in Schneider Electric Floating License Manager 1.0.0 through 1.4.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse application with a name composed of an initial substring of a path that contains a space character.

The weakness was presented 02/28/2014 (Website). The advisory is shared at ics-cert.us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-0759 since 01/02/2014. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574.009 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 63155 (Microsoft Windows Unquoted Service Path Enumeration), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows.

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 databases at X-Force (91683), Tenable (63155), SecurityFocus (BID 65873†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-43742†). See VDB-8077, VDB-67209 and VDB-70731 for similar entries. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Unquoted search path
CWE: CWE-428 / CWE-426
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Physical: Partially
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Nessus ID: 63155
Nessus Name: Microsoft Windows Unquoted Service Path Enumeration
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: schneider-electric.com

Advisory: ics-cert.us-cert.gov
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2014-0759 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-0759
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-66473
X-Force: 91683
SecurityFocus: 65873 - Schneider Electric Floating License Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 43742 - Schneider Electric Floating License Manager 1.0.0 - 1.4.0 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability due to Unquoted Windows Search Path, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 09/19/2025 23:23
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (59), 05/24/2017 09:16 (5), 02/03/2022 07:46 (4), 04/12/2025 19:48 (23), 09/19/2025 23:23 (8)
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