PT-2018-4577 · Nullsoft · Nsis

Andre Heinecke · Published 2018-10-01 · Updated 2021-03-15 · CVE-2015-9268

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) versions prior to 2.49

Description The issue concerns unsafe implicit linking against Version.dll, meaning there is no protection mechanism to resolve the dependency at an appropriate time during runtime. This lack of a wrapper function to manage dependencies can lead to potential security issues.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.49, update to version 2.49 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-9268

DLA-1602-1

Affected Products

Nsis

References · 17

• 🔥 https://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1125 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9268 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-9268 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1602-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-9268 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-9267 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/nsis · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-9268 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-9268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-9268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-9268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1602-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-9268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.debian.org/src:nsis · Note
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00041.html · Note