CWE-426
Untrusted Search Path
Description
The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control.
Hierarchy (View 1000)
Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-38
CVEs mapped to this weakness (672)
page 33 of 34| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
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| CVE-2026-48391 | Hig | 0.00 | 8.2 | 0.00 | Jul 28, 2026 | Bridge is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. A low-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. Exploitation of this issue requires user… | ||
| CVE-2026-48287 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.4 | 0.00 | Jul 14, 2026 | CAI Content Credentials is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploit depends on conditions beyond the attacker's control. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in… | ||
| CVE-2026-48275 | Hig | 0.00 | 8.6 | 0.00 | Jul 14, 2026 | Illustrator is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. Scope is changed. | ||
| CVE-2026-48346 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.9 | 0.00 | Jul 14, 2026 | Animate is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. Scope is changed. | ||
| CVE-2026-57097 | Med | 0.00 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Jul 14, 2026 | Untrusted search path in Microsoft XML allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature with a physical attack. | ||
| CVE-2026-15515 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.0 | 0.00 | Jul 13, 2026 | A security vulnerability has been detected in Tencent PC Manager 18.1.30242.301. This issue affects some unknown processing in the library qmudisk64.sys of the component QMUDisk Driver. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. The attack must be carried out locally.… | ||
| CVE-2026-49145 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.5 | 0.00 | Jul 8, 2026 | App::Ack versions through 3.10.0 for Perl read arbitrary files via --files-from in a project .ackrc. ack searches up the directory hierarchy from the current directory for a project .ackrc and loads its options. The project-source option blocklist in App::Ack::ConfigLoader does… | ||
| CVE-2026-6901 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.7 | 0.00 | Jul 6, 2026 | Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in B&R Industrial Automation GmbH APROL. This issue affects APROL: before R 4.4-01P5. | ||
| CVE-2026-57919 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.8 | 0.00 | Jun 29, 2026 | PBackupVSS.exe in Matrix42 Empirum before 25.5 and 26.x before 26.2 creates a named pipe (\\.\pipe\PBackupVSS) with a DACL that grants GENERIC_READ and GENERIC_WRITE permissions to all authenticated users. A low-privileged local attacker can connect to this pipe and send crafted… | ||
| CVE-2026-46710 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.8 | 0.00 | Jun 26, 2026 | Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. From 8.9.4 until 8.9.6, Notepad++ contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer. During installation, the installer invokes powershell.exe without using an absolute path after setting the working… | ||
| CVE-2026-29089 | Hig | 0.00 | 8.8 | 0.00 | Mar 6, 2026 | TimescaleDB is a time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension. From version 2.23.0 to 2.25.1, PostgreSQL uses the search_path setting to locate unqualified database objects (tables, functions, operators). If the search_path… | ||
| CVE-2026-23512 | Hig | 0.00 | 8.6 | 0.00 | Jan 14, 2026 | SumatraPDF is a multi-format reader for Windows. In 3.5.2 and earlier, there is a Untrusted Search Path vulnerability when Advanced Options setting is trigger. The application executes notepad.exe without specifying an absolute path when using the Advanced Options setting. On… | ||
| CVE-2023-41105 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.5 | 0.02 | Aug 23, 2023 | An issue was discovered in Python 3.11 through 3.11.4. If a path containing '\0' bytes is passed to os.path.normpath(), the path will be truncated unexpectedly at the first '\0' byte. There are plausible cases in which an application would have rejected a filename for security… | ||
| CVE-2023-23618 | Hig | 0.00 | 8.6 | 0.00 | Feb 14, 2023 | Git for Windows is the Windows port of the revision control system Git. Prior to Git for Windows version 2.39.2, when `gitk` is run on Windows, it potentially runs executables from the current directory inadvertently, which can be exploited with some social engineering to trick… | ||
| CVE-2022-4883 | Hig | 0.00 | 8.8 | 0.01 | Feb 7, 2023 | A flaw was found in libXpm. When processing files with .Z or .gz extensions, the library calls external programs to compress and uncompress files, relying on the PATH environment variable to find these programs, which could allow a malicious user to execute other programs by… | ||
| CVE-2022-39245 | Hig | 0.00 | 8.4 | 0.00 | Sep 26, 2022 | Mist is the command-line interface for the makedeb Package Repository. Prior to version 0.9.5, a user-provided `sudo` binary via the `PATH` variable can allow a local user to run arbitrary commands on the user's system with root permissions. Versions 0.9.5 and later contain a… | ||
| CVE-2021-37617 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.3 | 0.00 | Aug 18, 2021 | The Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server with a computer. The Nextcloud Desktop Client invokes its uninstaller script when being installed to make sure there are no remnants of previous installations. In versions 3.0.3 through 3.2.4, the… | ||
| CVE-2020-15801 | Cri | 0.00 | 9.8 | 0.03 | Jul 17, 2020 | In Python 3.8.4, sys.path restrictions specified in a python38._pth file are ignored, allowing code to be loaded from arbitrary locations. The ._pth file (e.g., the python._pth file) is not affected. | ||
| CVE-2020-11081 | Med | 0.00 | 5.3 | 0.01 | Jul 10, 2020 | osquery before version 4.4.0 enables a privilege escalation vulnerability. If a Window system is configured with a PATH that contains a user-writable directory then a local user may write a zlib1.dll DLL, which osquery will attempt to load. Since osquery runs with elevated… | ||
| CVE-2018-19486 | Cri | 0.00 | 9.8 | 0.04 | Nov 23, 2018 | Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017. |
- risk 0.00cvss 8.2epss 0.00
Bridge is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. A low-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. Exploitation of this issue requires user…
- risk 0.00cvss 7.4epss 0.00
CAI Content Credentials is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploit depends on conditions beyond the attacker's control. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in…
- risk 0.00cvss 8.6epss 0.00
Illustrator is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. Scope is changed.
- risk 0.00cvss 7.9epss 0.00
Animate is affected by an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. Scope is changed.
- risk 0.00cvss 6.4epss 0.00
Untrusted search path in Microsoft XML allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature with a physical attack.
- risk 0.00cvss 7.0epss 0.00
A security vulnerability has been detected in Tencent PC Manager 18.1.30242.301. This issue affects some unknown processing in the library qmudisk64.sys of the component QMUDisk Driver. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. The attack must be carried out locally.…
- risk 0.00cvss 7.5epss 0.00
App::Ack versions through 3.10.0 for Perl read arbitrary files via --files-from in a project .ackrc. ack searches up the directory hierarchy from the current directory for a project .ackrc and loads its options. The project-source option blocklist in App::Ack::ConfigLoader does…
- risk 0.00cvss 7.7epss 0.00
Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in B&R Industrial Automation GmbH APROL. This issue affects APROL: before R 4.4-01P5.
- risk 0.00cvss 7.8epss 0.00
PBackupVSS.exe in Matrix42 Empirum before 25.5 and 26.x before 26.2 creates a named pipe (\\.\pipe\PBackupVSS) with a DACL that grants GENERIC_READ and GENERIC_WRITE permissions to all authenticated users. A low-privileged local attacker can connect to this pipe and send crafted…
- risk 0.00cvss 7.8epss 0.00
Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. From 8.9.4 until 8.9.6, Notepad++ contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer. During installation, the installer invokes powershell.exe without using an absolute path after setting the working…
- risk 0.00cvss 8.8epss 0.00
TimescaleDB is a time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension. From version 2.23.0 to 2.25.1, PostgreSQL uses the search_path setting to locate unqualified database objects (tables, functions, operators). If the search_path…
- risk 0.00cvss 8.6epss 0.00
SumatraPDF is a multi-format reader for Windows. In 3.5.2 and earlier, there is a Untrusted Search Path vulnerability when Advanced Options setting is trigger. The application executes notepad.exe without specifying an absolute path when using the Advanced Options setting. On…
- risk 0.00cvss 7.5epss 0.02
An issue was discovered in Python 3.11 through 3.11.4. If a path containing '\0' bytes is passed to os.path.normpath(), the path will be truncated unexpectedly at the first '\0' byte. There are plausible cases in which an application would have rejected a filename for security…
- risk 0.00cvss 8.6epss 0.00
Git for Windows is the Windows port of the revision control system Git. Prior to Git for Windows version 2.39.2, when `gitk` is run on Windows, it potentially runs executables from the current directory inadvertently, which can be exploited with some social engineering to trick…
- risk 0.00cvss 8.8epss 0.01
A flaw was found in libXpm. When processing files with .Z or .gz extensions, the library calls external programs to compress and uncompress files, relying on the PATH environment variable to find these programs, which could allow a malicious user to execute other programs by…
- risk 0.00cvss 8.4epss 0.00
Mist is the command-line interface for the makedeb Package Repository. Prior to version 0.9.5, a user-provided `sudo` binary via the `PATH` variable can allow a local user to run arbitrary commands on the user's system with root permissions. Versions 0.9.5 and later contain a…
- risk 0.00cvss 7.3epss 0.00
The Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server with a computer. The Nextcloud Desktop Client invokes its uninstaller script when being installed to make sure there are no remnants of previous installations. In versions 3.0.3 through 3.2.4, the…
- risk 0.00cvss 9.8epss 0.03
In Python 3.8.4, sys.path restrictions specified in a python38._pth file are ignored, allowing code to be loaded from arbitrary locations. The ._pth file (e.g., the python._pth file) is not affected.
- risk 0.00cvss 5.3epss 0.01
osquery before version 4.4.0 enables a privilege escalation vulnerability. If a Window system is configured with a PATH that contains a user-writable directory then a local user may write a zlib1.dll DLL, which osquery will attempt to load. Since osquery runs with elevated…
- risk 0.00cvss 9.8epss 0.04
Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.