PT-2018-8899 · Vix · Vix

Published 2018-03-22 · Updated 2018-04-20 · CVE-2018-0540

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ViX version 2.21.148.0

Description The issue allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory due to an untrusted search path vulnerability.

Recommendations For version 2.21.148.0, update to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent privilege escalation via Trojan horse DLLs.

Fix

Untrusted Search Path

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-426

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-0540

Affected Products

Vix

References · 3

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-0540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0540 · Security Note
• https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN56764650/index.html · Note