High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published May 16, 2026· Updated May 18, 2026

CVE-2020-37231

Description

Privacy Drive 3.17.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the pdsvc.exe service binary that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by exploiting the service startup process. Attackers can place malicious executables in the unquoted path directories to execute arbitrary code with LocalSystem privileges during service startup or system reboot.

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Affected products

CybertronSoft/Privacy Drivellm-fuzzy
Range: =3.17.0

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.cybertronsoft.comnvd
www.cybertronsoft.com/download/privacy-drive-setup.exenvd
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49023nvd
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/privacy-drive-unquoted-service-path-privilege-escalationnvd

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