What is CVE-2018-10959?

CVE-2018-10959 is a high-severity vulnerability in Beyondtrust Avecto Defendpoint, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-04-17.

How severe is CVE-2018-10959?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Beyondtrust Avecto Defendpoint

CVE-2018-10959

Avecto Defendpoint 4 prior to 4.4 SR6 and 5 prior to 5.1 SR1 has an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability, exploitable by modifying environment variables to trigger automatic elevation of an attacker's process launch.

EPSS: 0.016 (73.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Beyondtrust Avecto_defendpoint
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-426 — Untrusted Search Path

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10959?: CVE-2018-10959 is a high-severity vulnerability in Beyondtrust Avecto Defendpoint, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-04-17.
How severe is CVE-2018-10959?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.