CVE-2017-2233 is an untrusted search path vulnerability affecting the Installer of the PDF Digital Signature Plugin (G2.30 and earlier), distributed until June 29, 2017. An attacker could exploit this by placing a malicious DLL in an unspecified directory, leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, but potentially leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= g2.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:moj:pdf_digital_signature:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.