Common Weakness Enumeration

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.

CVE-2026-26099 (GCVE-0-2026-26099)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-20 16:54 – Updated: 2026-02-20 23:03
VLAI
Title
Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Owl opds
Summary
Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Owl opds 2.2.0.4 allows Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths via a crafted network request.
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
Owl opds Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.2.0.4 (semver)
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Credits
Luca Borzacchiello at Nozomi Networks Gabriele Quagliarella at Nozomi Networks
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CVE-2026-26306 (GCVE-0-2026-26306)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-25 05:44 – Updated: 2026-03-25 13:27
VLAI
Summary
The installer for OM Workspace (Windows Edition) Ver 2.4 and earlier insecurely loads Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs), which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the installer.
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-2026-2713 (GCVE-0-2026-2713)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-10 19:53 – Updated: 2026-03-10 20:12
VLAI
Title
IBM Trusteer Rapport installer affected by uncontrolled search path element vulnerability
Summary
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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
ibm
References
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https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7263031 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Trusteer Rapport installer Affected: 3.5.2309.290
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:trusteer_rapport_installer:3.5.2309.290:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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CVE-2026-27774 (GCVE-0-2026-27774)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-02 17:05 – Updated: 2026-04-03 03:55
VLAI
Summary
Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis True Image (Windows) before build 42902.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Acronis Acronis True Image Affected: unspecified , < 42902 (semver)
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Credits
@chipotle_chili (https://hackerone.com/chipotle_chili)
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CVE-2026-28456 (GCVE-0-2026-28456)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-05 21:59 – Updated: 2026-03-09 17:06
VLAI
Title
OpenClaw 2026.1.5 < 2026.2.14 - Arbitrary Code Execution via Unsafe Hook Module Path Handling
Summary
OpenClaw versions 2026.1.5 prior to 2026.2.14 contain a vulnerability in the Gateway in which it does not sufficiently constrain configured hook module paths before passing them to dynamic import(), allowing code execution. An attacker with gateway configuration modification access can load and execute unintended local modules in the Node.js process.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenClaw OpenClaw Affected: 2026.1.5 , < 2026.2.14 (custom)
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Date Public
2026-02-16 00:00
Credits
222n5
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CVE-2026-28704 (GCVE-0-2026-28704)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-10 05:49 – Updated: 2026-04-10 14:03 Unsupported When Assigned
VLAI
Summary
Emocheck insecurely loads Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs). If a crafted DLL file is placed to the same directory, an arbitrary code may be executed with the privilege of the user invoking EmoCheck.
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-2026-28711 (GCVE-0-2026-28711)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-05 23:50 – Updated: 2026-03-07 04:55
VLAI
Summary
Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 17 (Windows) before build 41186.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect 17 Affected: unspecified , < 41186 (semver)
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Credits
@vanitas (https://hackerone.com/vanitas)
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CVE-2026-28712 (GCVE-0-2026-28712)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-05 23:50 – Updated: 2026-03-07 04:55
VLAI
Summary
Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 17 (Windows) before build 41186.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect 17 Affected: unspecified , < 41186 (semver)
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Credits
@vanitas (https://hackerone.com/vanitas)
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CVE-2026-28728 (GCVE-0-2026-28728)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-02 17:04 – Updated: 2026-04-03 03:55
VLAI
Summary
Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis True Image (Windows) before build 42902.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Acronis Acronis True Image Affected: unspecified , < 42902 (semver)
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CVE-2026-28760 (GCVE-0-2026-28760)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-26 06:54 – Updated: 2026-03-26 14:17
VLAI
Summary
The installer of RATOC RAID Monitoring Manager for Windows searches the current directory to load certain DLLs. If a user is directed to place a crafted DLL with the installer, an arbitrary code may be executed with the administrator privilege.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
Impacted products
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Mitigation

Phases: Architecture and Design, Implementation

Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction

Description:

  • 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

Phase: Implementation

Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction

Description:

  • 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

Phase: Implementation

Strategy: Attack Surface Reduction

Description:

  • 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

Phase: Implementation

Description:

  • 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

Phase: Implementation

Description:

  • 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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