What is GHSA-vcqw-5625-54xg?

GHSA-vcqw-5625-54xg is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Winstep 18.06.0096 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the Winstep Xtreme Service...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-vcqw-5625-54xg cover?

GHSA-vcqw-5625-54xg covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2020-37253. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-vcqw-5625-54xg?

GHSA-vcqw-5625-54xg has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-vcqw-5625-54xgHighCVSS 7.8

Winstep 18.06.0096 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the Winstep Xtreme Service...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

June 19, 2026

Last Modified

June 19, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-37253 →

📋 Description

Winstep 18.06.0096 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the Winstep Xtreme Service that allows local attackers to escalate privileges. Attackers can place malicious executables in the Program Files directory to be executed with LocalSystem privileges when the service starts.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-37253
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49004
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/winstep-unquoted-service-path-privilege-escalation
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vcqw-5625-54xg