CVE-2022-39959

HIGH

Panini Everest Engine - Privilege Escalation

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Panini Everest Engine 2.0.4 allows unprivileged users to create a file named Everest.exe in the %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini folder. This leads to privilege escalation because a service, running as SYSTEM, uses the unquoted path of %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini\Everest Engine\EverestEngine.exe and therefore a Trojan horse %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini\Everest.exe may be executed instead of the intended vendor-supplied EverestEngine.exe file.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP 1 stars
by usmarine2141 · poc
https://github.com/usmarine2141/CVE-2022-39959

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0050
EPSS Percentile 66.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-428
Status published
Products (1)
panini/everest_engine 2.0.4
Published Oct 07, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026