PT-2018-19080 · Naver · Naver Whale

Kushal Arvind Shah · Published 2018-06-15 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-9859

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NAVER Whale versions prior to 1.0.40.7

Description The issue is related to an unquoted path in the Whale update service of NAVER Whale. This can potentially be exploited for persistent privilege escalation if an attacker can create an executable file with System privilege, possibly through other vulnerable applications.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.40.7, update to version 1.0.40.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-9859

Affected Products

Naver Whale

References · 3

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-9859 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.naver.com/detail/cve-2018-9859.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9859 · Security Note