CVE-2017-5170 — An Uncontrolled Search Path Element issue was discovered in Moxa SoftNVR-IA Live

An Uncontrolled Search Path Element issue was discovered in Moxa SoftNVR-IA Live Viewer, Version 3.30.3122 and prior versions. An uncontrolled search path element (DLL Hijacking) vulnerability has been identified. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could rename a maliciou

01What is this vulnerability?

An Uncontrolled Search Path Element issue was discovered in Moxa SoftNVR-IA Live Viewer, Version 3.30.3122 and prior versions. An uncontrolled search path element (DLL Hijacking) vulnerability has been identified. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could rename a malicious DLL to meet the criteria of the application, and the application would not verify that the DLL is correct. The…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / Moxa SoftNVR	IA Live Viewer — Moxa SoftNVR-IA Live Viewer

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-01-18T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T14:55:35.703Z

09References

• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100208
• ics-cert.us-cert.gov — https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-17-220-02