CVE-2018-0562 describes an untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer for SoundEngine Free version 5.21 and earlier. An attacker could exploit this by placing a malicious DLL (Trojan horse) in an unspecified directory, leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:coderium:soundengine:*:*:*:*:free:*:*:* |
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.