CWE-427
Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Description
The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors.
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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)
CAPEC-38 · CAPEC-471
CVEs mapped to this weakness (1,213)
page 57 of 61| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
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| CVE-2022-32498 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Jul 21, 2022 | Dell EMC PowerStore, Versions prior to v3.0.0.0 contain a DLL Hijacking vulnerability in PSTCLI. A local attacker can potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges, and bypass software allow list solutions, leading to system takeover or IP… | ||
| CVE-2021-44199 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Nov 29, 2021 | DLL hijacking could lead to denial of service. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 15 (Windows) before build 28035, Acronis Agent (Windows) before build 27305, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 39612 | ||
| CVE-2020-25738 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Nov 27, 2020 | CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager (EPM) 11.1.0.173 allows attackers to bypass a Credential Theft protection mechanism by injecting a DLL into a process that normally has credential access, such as a Chrome process that reads credentials from a SQLite database. | ||
| CVE-2020-8315 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.01 | Jan 28, 2020 | In Python (CPython) 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1, an insecure dependency load upon launch on Windows 7 may result in an attacker's copy of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll being loaded and used instead of the system's copy. Windows 8 and later are… | ||
| CVE-2019-3750 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Dec 3, 2019 | Dell Command Update versions prior to 3.1 contain an Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user with low privileges potentially could exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files by creating a symlink from the "Temp\IC\ICDebugLog.txt" to… | ||
| CVE-2019-3749 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Dec 3, 2019 | Dell Command Update versions prior to 3.1 contain an Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user with low privileges potentially could exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files by creating a symlink from the… | ||
| CVE-2018-1890 | Med | 0.36 | 5.6 | 0.00 | Mar 11, 2019 | IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users. IBM X-Force ID: 152081. | ||
| CVE-2018-15452 | Med | 0.36 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Nov 13, 2018 | A vulnerability in the DLL loading component of Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints on Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to disable system scanning services or take other actions to prevent detection of unauthorized intrusions. To exploit… | ||
| CVE-2026-34175 | Med | 0.35 | — | 0.00 | Aug 11, 2026 | Uncontrolled search path for some Hardware-Aware-Automated-MachineLearning NA before version 45cd723 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable… | ||
| CVE-2026-32788 | Med | 0.35 | — | 0.00 | Aug 11, 2026 | Uncontrolled search path for some Approximate Bayesian Inference Framework before version on commit #484c949 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may… | ||
| CVE-2026-28700 | Med | 0.35 | — | 0.00 | Aug 11, 2026 | Uncontrolled search path for some EquiTriton before version f5ddbb5 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result… | ||
| CVE-2025-36515 | Med | 0.35 | — | 0.00 | May 12, 2026 | Uncontrolled search path for some AI Playground software before version 3.0.0 alpha within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of… | ||
| CVE-2025-35969 | Med | 0.35 | — | 0.00 | May 12, 2026 | Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) Server Firmware Update Utility Software before version 16.0.12. within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may… | ||
| CVE-2025-7676 | Med | 0.35 | — | 0.00 | Jul 28, 2025 | DLL hijacking of all PE32 executables when run on Windows for ARM64 CPU architecture. This allows an attacker to execute code, if the attacker can plant a DLL in the same directory as the executable. Vulnerable versions of Windows 11 for ARM attempt to load Base DLLs that would… | ||
| CVE-2025-5981 | Med | 0.35 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Jun 18, 2025 | Arbitrary file write as the OSV-SCALIBR user on the host system via a path traversal vulnerability when using OSV-SCALIBR's unpack() function for container images. Particularly, when using the CLI flag --remote-image on untrusted container images. | ||
| CVE-2022-32222 | Med | 0.35 | 5.3 | 0.02 | Jul 14, 2022 | A cryptographic vulnerability exists on Node.js on linux in versions of 18.x prior to 18.40.0 which allowed a default path for openssl.cnf that might be accessible under some circumstances to a non-admin user instead of /etc/ssl as was the case in versions prior to the upgrade… | ||
| CVE-2020-24356 | Med | 0.35 | 6.4 | 0.00 | Oct 2, 2020 | `cloudflared` versions prior to 2020.8.1 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability on Windows systems. When run on a Windows system, `cloudflared` searches for configuration files which could be abused by a malicious entity to execute commands as a privileged user.… | ||
| CVE-2026-47274 | Med | 0.34 | 6.3 | 0.00 | May 27, 2026 | pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, multiple pam_usb helper tools resolved external binaries through the PATH environment variable rather than using absolute paths. An attacker who can influence the process… | ||
| CVE-2024-7193 | — | Med | 0.34 | 5.3 | 0.00 | Jul 29, 2024 | A vulnerability has been found in Mp3tag up to 3.26d and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code in the library tak_deco_lib.dll of the component DLL Handler. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. It is possible to launch the attack on… | |
| CVE-2023-6891 | Med | 0.34 | 5.3 | 0.00 | Dec 17, 2023 | A vulnerability has been found in PeaZip 9.4.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality in the library dragdropfilesdll.dll of the component Library Handler. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. An attack has to be… |
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Dell EMC PowerStore, Versions prior to v3.0.0.0 contain a DLL Hijacking vulnerability in PSTCLI. A local attacker can potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges, and bypass software allow list solutions, leading to system takeover or IP…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
DLL hijacking could lead to denial of service. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 15 (Windows) before build 28035, Acronis Agent (Windows) before build 27305, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 39612
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager (EPM) 11.1.0.173 allows attackers to bypass a Credential Theft protection mechanism by injecting a DLL into a process that normally has credential access, such as a Chrome process that reads credentials from a SQLite database.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.01
In Python (CPython) 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1, an insecure dependency load upon launch on Windows 7 may result in an attacker's copy of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll being loaded and used instead of the system's copy. Windows 8 and later are…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Dell Command Update versions prior to 3.1 contain an Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user with low privileges potentially could exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files by creating a symlink from the "Temp\IC\ICDebugLog.txt" to…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Dell Command Update versions prior to 3.1 contain an Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user with low privileges potentially could exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary files by creating a symlink from the…
- risk 0.36cvss 5.6epss 0.00
IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users. IBM X-Force ID: 152081.
- risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00
A vulnerability in the DLL loading component of Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints on Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to disable system scanning services or take other actions to prevent detection of unauthorized intrusions. To exploit…
- risk 0.35cvss —epss 0.00
Uncontrolled search path for some Hardware-Aware-Automated-MachineLearning NA before version 45cd723 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable…
- risk 0.35cvss —epss 0.00
Uncontrolled search path for some Approximate Bayesian Inference Framework before version on commit #484c949 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may…
- risk 0.35cvss —epss 0.00
Uncontrolled search path for some EquiTriton before version f5ddbb5 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result…
- risk 0.35cvss —epss 0.00
Uncontrolled search path for some AI Playground software before version 3.0.0 alpha within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of…
- risk 0.35cvss —epss 0.00
Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) Server Firmware Update Utility Software before version 16.0.12. within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may…
- risk 0.35cvss —epss 0.00
DLL hijacking of all PE32 executables when run on Windows for ARM64 CPU architecture. This allows an attacker to execute code, if the attacker can plant a DLL in the same directory as the executable. Vulnerable versions of Windows 11 for ARM attempt to load Base DLLs that would…
- risk 0.35cvss 6.5epss 0.00
Arbitrary file write as the OSV-SCALIBR user on the host system via a path traversal vulnerability when using OSV-SCALIBR's unpack() function for container images. Particularly, when using the CLI flag --remote-image on untrusted container images.
- risk 0.35cvss 5.3epss 0.02
A cryptographic vulnerability exists on Node.js on linux in versions of 18.x prior to 18.40.0 which allowed a default path for openssl.cnf that might be accessible under some circumstances to a non-admin user instead of /etc/ssl as was the case in versions prior to the upgrade…
- risk 0.35cvss 6.4epss 0.00
`cloudflared` versions prior to 2020.8.1 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability on Windows systems. When run on a Windows system, `cloudflared` searches for configuration files which could be abused by a malicious entity to execute commands as a privileged user.…
- risk 0.34cvss 6.3epss 0.00
pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, multiple pam_usb helper tools resolved external binaries through the PATH environment variable rather than using absolute paths. An attacker who can influence the process…
- risk 0.34cvss 5.3epss 0.00
A vulnerability has been found in Mp3tag up to 3.26d and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code in the library tak_deco_lib.dll of the component DLL Handler. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. It is possible to launch the attack on…
- risk 0.34cvss 5.3epss 0.00
A vulnerability has been found in PeaZip 9.4.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality in the library dragdropfilesdll.dll of the component Library Handler. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. An attack has to be…