CWE-428
Unquoted Search Path or Element
Description
The product uses a search path that contains an unquoted element, in which the element contains whitespace or other separators. This can cause the product to access resources in a parent path.
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CVEs mapped to this weakness (456)
page 23 of 23| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
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| CVE-2020-35152 | Med | 0.29 | 4.5 | 0.00 | Feb 3, 2021 | Cloudflare WARP for Windows allows privilege escalation due to an unquoted service path. A malicious user or process running with non-administrative privileges can become an administrator by abusing the unquoted service path issue. Since version 1.2.2695.1, the vulnerability was… | ||
| CVE-2020-0507 | Med | 0.29 | 4.4 | 0.00 | Mar 12, 2020 | Unquoted service path in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers before versions 15.33.49.5100, 15.36.38.5117, 15.40.44.5107, 15.45.30.5103, and 26.20.100.7212 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access. | ||
| CVE-2020-1988 | Med | 0.27 | 4.2 | 0.00 | Apr 8, 2020 | An unquoted search path vulnerability in the Windows release of Global Protect Agent allows an authenticated local user with file creation privileges on the root of the OS disk (C:\) or to Program Files directory to gain system privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks… | ||
| CVE-2020-7252 | Med | 0.27 | 4.2 | 0.01 | Feb 17, 2020 | Unquoted service executable path in DXL Broker in McAfee Data eXchange Layer (DXL) Framework 6.0.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service and malicious file execution via carefully crafted and named executable files. | ||
| CVE-2022-0237 | Med | 0.26 | 4.0 | 0.00 | Mar 17, 2022 | Rapid7 Insight Agent versions 3.1.2.38 and earlier suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability, whereby an attacker can hijack the flow of execution due to an unquoted argument to the runas.exe command used by the ir_agent.exe component, resulting in elevated rights and… | ||
| CVE-2022-1697 | Low | 0.25 | 3.9 | 0.00 | Sep 6, 2022 | Okta Active Directory Agent versions 3.8.0 through 3.11.0 installed the Okta AD Agent Update Service using an unquoted path. Note: To remediate this vulnerability, you must uninstall Okta Active Directory Agent and reinstall Okta Active Directory Agent 3.12.0 or greater per the… | ||
| CVE-2023-7043 | Low | 0.21 | 3.3 | 0.00 | Jan 31, 2024 | Unquoted service path in ESET products allows to drop a prepared program to a specific location and run on boot with the NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService permissions. | ||
| CVE-2026-34768 | Low | 0.18 | 3.9 | 0.00 | Apr 4, 2026 | Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to versions 38.8.6, 39.8.1, 40.8.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8, on Windows, app.setLoginItemSettings({openAtLogin: true}) wrote the executable path to the Run registry key… | ||
| CVE-2023-38408 | Cri | 0.06 | 9.8 | 0.80 | Jul 20, 2023 | The PKCS#11 feature in ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 9.3p2 has an insufficiently trustworthy search path, leading to remote code execution if an agent is forwarded to an attacker-controlled system. (Code in /usr/lib is not necessarily safe for loading into ssh-agent.) NOTE: this… | ||
| CVE-2020-15261 | Hig | 0.04 | 8.0 | 0.11 | Oct 19, 2020 | On Windows the Veyon Service before version 4.4.2 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability, allowing locally authenticated users with administrative privileges to run malicious executables with LocalSystem privileges. Since Veyon users (both students and teachers) usually… | ||
| CVE-2026-8864 | Hig | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | Jun 30, 2026 | The HP Fan Control App might allow local escalation of privileges. An updated version of HP Fan Control App has been released to mitigate this potential vulnerability. | ||
| CVE-2025-54081 | Med | 0.00 | 6.7 | 0.00 | Sep 23, 2025 | Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Prior to version 2025.923.33222, the Windows service SunshineService is installed with an unquoted executable path. If Sunshine is installed in a directory whose name includes a space, the Service Control Manager (SCM)… | ||
| CVE-2024-9287 | Hig | 0.00 | 7.8 | 0.01 | Oct 22, 2024 | A vulnerability has been found in the CPython `venv` module and CLI where path names provided when creating a virtual environment were not quoted properly, allowing the creator to inject commands into virtual environment "activation" scripts (ie "source venv/bin/activate"). This… | ||
| CVE-2024-31226 | Med | 0.00 | 4.9 | 0.00 | May 16, 2024 | Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Users who ran Sunshine versions 0.17.0 through 0.22.2 as a service on Windows may be impacted when terminating the service if an attacked placed a file named `C:\Program.exe`, `C:\Program.bat`, or `C:\Program.cmd` on the… | ||
| CVE-2021-21292 | Med | 0.00 | 5.5 | 0.00 | Feb 2, 2021 | Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system. In Traccar before version 4.12 there is an unquoted Windows binary path vulnerability. Only Windows versions are impacted. Attacker needs write access to the filesystem on the host machine. If Java path includes a space, then… | ||
| CVE-2015-4173 | 0.00 | — | 0.02 | Aug 26, 2015 | Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in the autorun value in Dell SonicWall NetExtender before 7.5.227 and 8.0.x before 8.0.238, as used in the SRA firmware before 7.5.1.2-40sv and 8.x before 8.0.0.3-23sv, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in… |
- risk 0.29cvss 4.5epss 0.00
Cloudflare WARP for Windows allows privilege escalation due to an unquoted service path. A malicious user or process running with non-administrative privileges can become an administrator by abusing the unquoted service path issue. Since version 1.2.2695.1, the vulnerability was…
- risk 0.29cvss 4.4epss 0.00
Unquoted service path in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers before versions 15.33.49.5100, 15.36.38.5117, 15.40.44.5107, 15.45.30.5103, and 26.20.100.7212 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.
- risk 0.27cvss 4.2epss 0.00
An unquoted search path vulnerability in the Windows release of Global Protect Agent allows an authenticated local user with file creation privileges on the root of the OS disk (C:\) or to Program Files directory to gain system privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks…
- risk 0.27cvss 4.2epss 0.01
Unquoted service executable path in DXL Broker in McAfee Data eXchange Layer (DXL) Framework 6.0.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service and malicious file execution via carefully crafted and named executable files.
- risk 0.26cvss 4.0epss 0.00
Rapid7 Insight Agent versions 3.1.2.38 and earlier suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability, whereby an attacker can hijack the flow of execution due to an unquoted argument to the runas.exe command used by the ir_agent.exe component, resulting in elevated rights and…
- risk 0.25cvss 3.9epss 0.00
Okta Active Directory Agent versions 3.8.0 through 3.11.0 installed the Okta AD Agent Update Service using an unquoted path. Note: To remediate this vulnerability, you must uninstall Okta Active Directory Agent and reinstall Okta Active Directory Agent 3.12.0 or greater per the…
- risk 0.21cvss 3.3epss 0.00
Unquoted service path in ESET products allows to drop a prepared program to a specific location and run on boot with the NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService permissions.
- risk 0.18cvss 3.9epss 0.00
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to versions 38.8.6, 39.8.1, 40.8.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8, on Windows, app.setLoginItemSettings({openAtLogin: true}) wrote the executable path to the Run registry key…
- risk 0.06cvss 9.8epss 0.80
The PKCS#11 feature in ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 9.3p2 has an insufficiently trustworthy search path, leading to remote code execution if an agent is forwarded to an attacker-controlled system. (Code in /usr/lib is not necessarily safe for loading into ssh-agent.) NOTE: this…
- risk 0.04cvss 8.0epss 0.11
On Windows the Veyon Service before version 4.4.2 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability, allowing locally authenticated users with administrative privileges to run malicious executables with LocalSystem privileges. Since Veyon users (both students and teachers) usually…
- risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.00
The HP Fan Control App might allow local escalation of privileges. An updated version of HP Fan Control App has been released to mitigate this potential vulnerability.
- risk 0.00cvss 6.7epss 0.00
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Prior to version 2025.923.33222, the Windows service SunshineService is installed with an unquoted executable path. If Sunshine is installed in a directory whose name includes a space, the Service Control Manager (SCM)…
- risk 0.00cvss 7.8epss 0.01
A vulnerability has been found in the CPython `venv` module and CLI where path names provided when creating a virtual environment were not quoted properly, allowing the creator to inject commands into virtual environment "activation" scripts (ie "source venv/bin/activate"). This…
- risk 0.00cvss 4.9epss 0.00
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Users who ran Sunshine versions 0.17.0 through 0.22.2 as a service on Windows may be impacted when terminating the service if an attacked placed a file named `C:\Program.exe`, `C:\Program.bat`, or `C:\Program.cmd` on the…
- risk 0.00cvss 5.5epss 0.00
Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system. In Traccar before version 4.12 there is an unquoted Windows binary path vulnerability. Only Windows versions are impacted. Attacker needs write access to the filesystem on the host machine. If Java path includes a space, then…
- CVE-2015-4173Aug 26, 2015risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.02
Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in the autorun value in Dell SonicWall NetExtender before 7.5.227 and 8.0.x before 8.0.238, as used in the SRA firmware before 7.5.1.2-40sv and 8.x before 8.0.0.3-23sv, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in…