CWE-427— Uncontrolled Search Path Element
The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors.— MITRE CWE catalog
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- CVE-2025-9844HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82025-09-23
Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in Salesforce Salesforce CLI on Windows allows Replace Trusted Executable.This issue affects Salesforce CLI: before 2.106.6.
- CVE-2025-9059HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82025-09-11
The Altiris Core Agent Updater package (AeXNSC.exe) is prone to an elevation of privileges vulnerability through DLL hijacking.
- CVE-2025-36004HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82025-06-25
IBM i 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 could allow a user to gain elevated privileges due to an unqualified library call in IBM Facsimile Support for i. A malicious actor could cause user-controlled code to run with administrator privilege.
- CVE-2025-49155HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82025-06-17
An uncontrolled search path vulnerability in the Trend Micro Apex One Data Loss Prevention module could allow an attacker to inject malicious code leading to arbitrary code execution on affected installations.
- CVE-2025-32917HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82025-05-13
Privilege escalation in jar_signature agent plugin in Checkmk versions <2.4.0b7 (beta), <2.3.0p32, <2.2.0p42, and 2.1.0p49 (EOL) allow user with write access to JAVA_HOME/bin directory to escalate privileges.
- CVE-2024-41739HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82025-01-24
IBM Cognos Dashboards 4.0.7 and 5.0.0 on Cloud Pak for Data could allow a remote attacker to perform unauthorized actions due to dependency confusion.
- CVE-2024-2208HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-11-12
Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in the audio package for certain HP PC products using the Sound Research SECOMN64 driver, which might allow escalation of privilege. Sound Research has released driver updates to mitigate the …
- CVE-2024-44107HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-09-10
DLL hijacking in the management console of Ivanti Workspace Control before version 2025.2 (10.19.0.0) allows a local authenticated attacker to escalate their privileges and achieve arbitrary code execution.
- CVE-2024-5290HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-08-07
An issue was discovered in Ubuntu wpa_supplicant that resulted in loading of arbitrary shared objects, which allows a local unprivileged attacker to escalate privileges to the user that wpa_supplicant runs as (usually root). Membership…
- CVE-2023-44440HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-05-03
Ashlar-Vellum Lithium Uncontrolled Search Path Element Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Ashlar-Vellum Lithium. User interaction is requir…
- CVE-2023-44439HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-05-03
Ashlar-Vellum Xenon Uncontrolled Search Path Element Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Ashlar-Vellum Xenon. User interaction is required t…
- CVE-2023-44438HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-05-03
Ashlar-Vellum Argon Uncontrolled Search Path Element Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Ashlar-Vellum Argon. User interaction is required t…
- CVE-2024-0670HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-03-11
Privilege escalation in windows agent plugin in Checkmk before 2.2.0p23, 2.1.0p40 and 2.0.0 (EOL) allows local user to escalate privileges
- CVE-2023-6740HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-01-12
Privilege escalation in jar_signature agent plugin in Checkmk before 2.2.0p18, 2.1.0p38 and 2.0.0p39 allows local user to escalate privileges
- CVE-2023-31210HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-12-13
Usage of user controlled LD_LIBRARY_PATH in agent in Checkmk 2.2.0p10 up to 2.2.0p16 allows malicious Checkmk site user to escalate rights via injection of malicious libraries
- CVE-2023-28380HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-08-11
Uncontrolled search path for the Intel(R) AI Hackathon software before version 2.0.0 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via network access.
- CVE-2023-2005HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-06-26
Vulnerability in Tenable Tenable.Io, Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center.This issue affects Tenable.Io: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Nessus: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Security Center: before Plugin Feed ID #2023062…
- CVE-2023-27298HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-05-10
Uncontrolled search path in the WULT software maintained by Intel(R) before version 1.0.0 (commit id 592300b) may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via network access.
- CVE-2023-0213HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-03-29
Elevation of privilege issue in M-Files Installer versions before 22.6 on Windows allows user to gain SYSTEM privileges via DLL hijacking.
- CVE-2022-4313HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-03-15
A vulnerability was reported where through modifying the scan variables, an authenticated user in Tenable products, that has Scan Policy Configuration roles, could manipulate audit policy variables to execute arbitrary commands on credenti…
- CVE-2023-23554HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-03-07
Uncontrolled search path element vulnerability exists in pg_ivm versions prior to 1.5.1. When refreshing an IMMV, pg_ivm executes functions without specifying schema names. Under certain conditions, pg_ivm may be tricked to execute unexpec…
- CVE-2022-43440HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-02-09
Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Checkmk Agent in Tribe29 Checkmk before 2.1.0p1, before 2.0.0p25 and before 1.6.0p29 on a Checkmk server allows the site user to escalate privileges via a manipulated unixcat executable
- CVE-2022-36930HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82023-01-09
Zoom Rooms for Windows installers before version 5.13.0 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability in an attack chain to escalate their privileges to the SYSTEM user.
- CVE-2022-36924HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-11-17
The Zoom Rooms Installer for Windows prior to 5.12.6 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A local low-privileged user could exploit this vulnerability during the install process to escalate their privileges to the SYSTEM us…
- CVE-2022-39286HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-10-26
Jupyter Core is a package for the core common functionality of Jupyter projects. Jupyter Core prior to version 4.11.2 contains an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in `jupyter_core` that stems from `jupyter_core` executing untrusted f…
- CVE-2022-2333HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-09-16
If an attacker manages to trick a valid user into loading a malicious DLL, the attacker may be able to achieve code execution in Honeywell SoftMaster version 4.51 application’s context and permissions.
- CVE-2017-20123HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-06-30
A vulnerability was found in Viscosity 1.6.7. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component DLL Handler. The manipulation leads to untrusted search path. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. T…
- CVE-2021-42743HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82022-05-06
A misconfiguration in the node default path allows for local privilege escalation from a lower privileged user to the Splunk user in Splunk Enterprise versions before 8.1.1 on Windows.
- CVE-2021-3840HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-11-12
A dependency confusion vulnerability was reported in the Antilles open-source software prior to version 1.0.1 that could allow for remote code execution during installation due to a package listed in requirements.txt not existing in the pu…
- CVE-2021-28822HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-03-23
The Enterprise Message Service Server (tibemsd), Enterprise Message Service Central Administration (tibemsca), Enterprise Message Service JSON configuration generator (tibemsconf2json), and Enterprise Message Service C API components of TI…
- CVE-2021-28820HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-03-23
The FTL Server (tibftlserver), FTL C API, FTL Golang API, FTL Java API, and FTL .Net API components of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO FTL - Community Edition, TIBCO FTL - Developer Edition, and TIBCO FTL - Enterprise Edition contain a vulnera…
- CVE-2020-15663HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82020-10-01
If Firefox is installed to a user-writable directory, the Mozilla Maintenance Service would execute updater.exe from the install location with system privileges. Although the Mozilla Maintenance Service does ensure that updater.exe is sign…
- CVE-2020-10616HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82020-05-14
Opto 22 SoftPAC Project Version 9.6 and prior. SoftPAC does not specify the path of multiple imported .dll files. Therefore, an attacker can replace them and execute code whenever the service starts.
- CVE-2017-7966HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82017-06-07
A DLL Hijacking vulnerability in the programming software in Schneider Electric's SoMachine HVAC v2.1.0 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targeted system. The vulnerability exists due to the improper loading of a DL…
- CVE-2026-91803HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 8.82026-09-23
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the updater of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to unsafe loading of dynamic-link libraries from a user-writable directory during high-privilege operations. A local attacker could exploit thi…
- CVE-2026-24502HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 8.82026-03-03
Dell Command | Intel vPro Out of Band, versions prior to 4.7.0, contain an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Elevation of pr…
- CVE-2026-106186HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-10-06
Uncontrolled search path element in CredentialProvider in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 155.0.8059.39 allowed a local attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a local program. (Chromium security severit…
- CVE-2026-76199HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-09-08
Photoshop Desktop is affected by an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. Ex…
- CVE-2026-48388HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-07-28
Adobe Photoshop Installer was affected by an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability that could have resulted in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. An attacker could have exploited this vulnerability by pla…
- CVE-2026-34632HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-04-15
Adobe Photoshop Installer was affected by an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability that could have resulted in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. An attacker could have exploited this vulnerability by pla…
- CVE-2025-59887HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-12-26
Improper authentication of library files in the Eaton UPS Companion software installer could lead to arbitrary code execution of an attacker with the access to the software package. This security issue has been fixed in the latest version…
- CVE-2025-59889HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-10-14
Improper authentication of library files in the Eaton IPP software installer could lead to arbitrary code execution of an attacker with the access to the software package. This security issue has been fixed in the latest version of IPP …
- CVE-2024-9499HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-01-24
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the USBXpress Win 98SE Dev Kit installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
- CVE-2024-9498HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-01-24
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the USBXpress SDK installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
- CVE-2024-9497HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-01-24
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the USBXpress 4 SDK installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
- CVE-2024-9496HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-01-24
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the USBXpress Dev Kit installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
- CVE-2024-9495HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-01-24
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the CP210x VCP Windows installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
- CVE-2024-9494HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-01-24
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the CP210 VCP Win 2k installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
- CVE-2024-9493HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-01-24
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in the ToolStick installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
- CVE-2024-9492HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62025-01-24
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities, caused by an uncontrolled search path in Flash Programming Utility installer can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution when running the impacted installer.
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