CVE-2018-10959 — Avecto Defendpoint 4 prior to 4

Avecto Defendpoint 4 prior to 4.4 SR6 and 5 prior to 5.1 SR1 has an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability, exploitable by modifying environment variables to trigger automatic elevation of an attacker's process launch.

01What is this vulnerability?

Avecto Defendpoint 4 prior to 4.4 SR6 and 5 prior to 5.1 SR1 has an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability, exploitable by modifying environment variables to trigger automatic elevation of an attacker's process launch.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

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: 2019-04-17T14:34:19.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T07:54:36.007Z

09References

• hackandpwn.com — https://hackandpwn.com/cve-2018-10959/
• hackandpwn.com — https://hackandpwn.com/assets/2019-04-17-cve-2018-10959/Defendpoint_Windows_Clie…
• hackandpwn.com — https://hackandpwn.com/assets/2019-04-17-cve-2018-10959/Defendpoint_Windows_Clie…
• www.beyondtrust.com — https://www.beyondtrust.com/docs/release-notes/privilege-management/windows-and-…
• www.beyondtrust.com — https://www.beyondtrust.com/docs/release-notes/privilege-management/windows-and-…