CVE-2017-13779

CVE-2017-13779 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the India Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) Offline Utility tool prior to version 1.2. The tool insecurely executes winstart-server.vbs from a directory with weak permissions, allowing a local attacker to replace this file with malicious VBScript code. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.