CVE-2017-12653 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in 360 Total Security version 9.0.0.1202 and earlier, allowing an attacker to gain elevated privileges by placing a malicious Shcore.dll file in a directory listed in the system's PATH. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), indicating a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 90/100. Despite the available exploit, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 9.0.0.1202CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:360totalsecurity:360_total_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.