CVE-2017-2288 is an untrusted search path vulnerability affecting LhaForge Ver. 1.6.5 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this by placing a malicious DLL in an unspecified directory, leading to privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, but can result in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:lhaforge_project:lhaforge:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.