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There is an Unquoted Service Path in NI Service Locator ...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

There is an Unquoted Service Path in NI Service Locator (nisvcloc.exe) in versions prior to 18.0 on Windows. This may allow an authorized local user to insert arbitrary code into the unquoted service path and escalate privileges.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 12, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(16th percentile)

Weaknesses

Unquoted Search Path or Element

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. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-42563

GHSA ID

GHSA-5qqh-x2j3-m856

Source code

No known source code

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