CVE-2017-7327 describes a DLL Hijacking vulnerability in Yandex Browser Desktop installer versions prior to 17.4.1, affecting Yandex Browser. This vulnerability arises from the installer using an untrusted search path for critical DLLs like dnsapi.dll, winmm.dll, ntmarta.dll, cryptbase.dll, or profapi.dll. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), successful exploitation could lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, requiring user interaction (UI:R) but with low attack complexity (AC:L) and local access (AV:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 17.4.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:yandex:yandex_browser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
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.