VYPR

CWE-427

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

BaseDraft

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 (1,233)

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  • CVE-2023-24578MedMar 13, 2023
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    McAfee Total Protection prior to 16.0.49 allows attackers to elevate user privileges due to DLL sideloading. This could enable a user with lower privileges to execute unauthorized tasks.

  • CVE-2022-36314MedDec 22, 2022
    risk 0.36cvss 5.5epss 0.00

    When opening a Windows shortcut from the local filesystem, an attacker could supply a remote path that would lead to unexpected network requests from the operating system.This bug only affects Firefox for Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability…

  • CVE-2022-32498MedJul 21, 2022
    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…

  • CVE-2021-44199MedNov 29, 2021
    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

  • CVE-2020-25738MedNov 27, 2020
    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.

  • CVE-2020-8315MedJan 28, 2020
    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…

  • CVE-2019-3750MedDec 3, 2019
    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…

  • CVE-2019-3749MedDec 3, 2019
    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…

  • CVE-2018-1890MedMar 11, 2019
    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.

  • CVE-2018-15452MedNov 13, 2018
    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…

  • CVE-2026-59781MedAug 18, 2026
    risk 0.35cvss —epss 0.00

    When Zabbix Agent was installed on Windows into a custom installation directory, the installer did not verify whether the selected directory had secure access permissions. If the target directory allowed unauthorized users to modify its contents, an attacker could place a…

  • CVE-2026-34175MedAug 11, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2026-32788MedAug 11, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2026-28700MedAug 11, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2025-36515MedMay 12, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2025-35969MedMay 12, 2026
    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…

  • CVE-2025-7676MedJul 28, 2025
    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…

  • CVE-2025-5981MedJun 18, 2025
    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.

  • CVE-2022-32222MedJul 14, 2022
    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…

  • CVE-2020-24356MedOct 2, 2020
    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.…