Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-427

Allowed-with-Review

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Abstraction: Base · Status: Draft

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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.

1782 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

CVE-2025-29803 (GCVE-0-2025-29803)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-12 01:32 – Updated: 2026-02-13 19:33
VLAI
Title
Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Summary
Uncontrolled search path element in Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2025-04-08 07:00
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CVE-2025-29802 (GCVE-0-2025-29802)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-08 17:24 – Updated: 2026-02-13 19:33
VLAI
Title
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Summary
Improper access control in Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2025-04-08 07:00
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CVE-2025-27717 (GCVE-0-2025-27717)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-12 16:59 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:49
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) Graphics Driver software may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • Escalation of Privilege
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Intel(R) Graphics Driver software Affected: See references
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CVE-2025-27237 (GCVE-0-2025-27237)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-03 11:28 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:48
VLAI
Title
DLL injection in Zabbix Agent and Agent 2 via OpenSSL configuration
Summary
In Zabbix Agent and Agent 2 on Windows, the OpenSSL configuration file is loaded from a path writable by low-privileged users, allowing malicious modification and potential local privilege escalation by injecting a DLL.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Zabbix Zabbix Affected: 6.0.0 , ≤ 6.0.40 (git)
Affected: 7.0.0 , ≤ 7.0.17 (git)
Affected: 7.2.0 , ≤ 7.2.11 (git)
Affected: 7.4.0 , ≤ 7.4.1 (git)
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Credits
Zabbix wants to thank himbeer for submitting this report on the HackerOne bug bounty platform.
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CVE-2025-26861 (GCVE-0-2025-26861)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-15 06:07 – Updated: 2025-10-15 17:15
VLAI
Summary
RemoteCall Remote Support Program (for Operator) versions prior to 5.3.0 contain an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability. If a crafted DLL is placed in the same folder with the affected product, it may cause an arbitrary code execution.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.5 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
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Impacted products
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CVE-2025-26860 (GCVE-0-2025-26860)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-15 06:06 – Updated: 2025-10-15 13:17
VLAI
Summary
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Severity
7.8 (High)
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SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
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Impacted products
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CVE-2025-26859 (GCVE-0-2025-26859)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-15 06:06 – Updated: 2025-10-15 13:22
VLAI
Summary
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Severity
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CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
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CVE-2025-26631 (GCVE-0-2025-26631)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-11 16:59 – Updated: 2026-02-13 19:39
VLAI
Title
Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Summary
Uncontrolled search path element in Visual Studio Code allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Visual Studio Code Affected: 1.0.0 , < 1.98.0 (custom)
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Date Public
2025-03-11 07:00
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CVE-2025-26624 (GCVE-0-2025-26624)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-18 22:40 – Updated: 2025-02-19 15:02
VLAI
Title
Local Privilege Escalation in Rufus 4.6 and previous versions
Summary
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. A DLL hijacking vulnerability in Rufus 4.6.2208 and earlier versions allows an attacker loading and executing a malicious DLL with escalated privileges (since the executable has been granted higher privileges during the time of launch) due to the ability to inject a malicious `cfgmgr32.dll` in the same directory as the executable and have it side load automatically. This is fixed in commit `74dfa49`, which will be part of version 4.7. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as version 4.7 becomes available. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pbatard rufus Affected: < 4.7
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CVE-2025-26404 (GCVE-0-2025-26404)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-12 16:59 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:49
VLAI
Summary
Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) DSA software before version 25.2.15.9 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • Escalation of Privilege
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Intel(R) DSA software Affected: before version 25.2.15.9
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Mitigation
Architecture and Design Implementation

Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction

Hard-code the search path to a set of known-safe values (such as system directories), or only allow them to be specified by the administrator in a configuration file. Do not allow these settings to be modified by an external party. Be careful to avoid related weaknesses such as CWE-426 and CWE-428.

Mitigation
Implementation

Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction

When invoking other programs, specify those programs using fully-qualified pathnames. While this is an effective approach, code that uses fully-qualified pathnames might not be portable to other systems that do not use the same pathnames. The portability can be improved by locating the full-qualified paths in a centralized, easily-modifiable location within the source code, and having the code refer to these paths.

Mitigation
Implementation

Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction

Remove or restrict all environment settings before invoking other programs. This includes the PATH environment variable, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and other settings that identify the location of code libraries, and any application-specific search paths.

Mitigation
Implementation

Check your search path before use and remove any elements that are likely to be unsafe, such as the current working directory or a temporary files directory. Since this is a denylist approach, it might not be a complete solution.

Mitigation
Implementation

Use other functions that require explicit paths. Making use of any of the other readily available functions that require explicit paths is a safe way to avoid this problem. For example, system() in C does not require a full path since the shell can take care of finding the program using the PATH environment variable, while execl() and execv() require a full path.

CAPEC-38: Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths

This pattern of attack sees an adversary load a malicious resource into a program's standard path so that when a known command is executed then the system instead executes the malicious component. The adversary can either modify the search path a program uses, like a PATH variable or classpath, or they can manipulate resources on the path to point to their malicious components. J2EE applications and other component based applications that are built from multiple binaries can have very long list of dependencies to execute. If one of these libraries and/or references is controllable by the attacker then application controls can be circumvented by the attacker.

CAPEC-471: Search Order Hijacking

An adversary exploits a weakness in an application's specification of external libraries to exploit the functionality of the loader where the process loading the library searches first in the same directory in which the process binary resides and then in other directories. Exploitation of this preferential search order can allow an attacker to make the loading process load the adversary's rogue library rather than the legitimate library. This attack can be leveraged with many different libraries and with many different loading processes. No forensic trails are left in the system's registry or file system that an incorrect library had been loaded.

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