CVE-2017-12480 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Sandboxie installer 5071703 has a DLL Hijacking or Unsafe DLL Loading Vulnerability via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll or profapi.dll file in an AppData\Local\Temp directory.

Published: 2017-08-06

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:sandboxie:sandboxie_installer:5071703:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-4052	Sandboxie installer 5071703 has a DLL Hijacking or Unsafe DLL Loading Vulnerability via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll or profapi.dll file in an AppData\Local\Temp directory.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00392.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://medium.com/%40BaYinMin/cve-2017-12480-sandboxie-installer-dll-hijacking-or-unsafe-dll-loading-vulnerability-41ad0562f41

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Sandboxie Sandboxie Installer

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-06T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:36:56.472Z

Reserved: 2017-08-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-12480

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-06T04:29:00.217

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-12480

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-426

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