CVE-2017-7884

HIGH

Apcupsd Apc Ups Daemon < 3.14.14 - Uncontrolled Search Path

Title source: rule

Description

In Adam Kropelin adk0212 APC UPS Daemon through 3.14.14, the default installation of APCUPSD allows a local authenticated, but unprivileged, user to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges by replacing the service executable apcupsd.exe with a malicious executable that will run with SYSTEM privileges at startup. This occurs because of "RW NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users" permissions for %SYSTEMDRIVE%\apcupsd\bin\apcupsd.exe.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.4
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 13.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-427
Status draft

Affected Products (1)

apcupsd/apc_ups_daemon < 3.14.14

Timeline

Published Jun 16, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026