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1 vulnerability by oscinventory

CVE-2023-53947 (GCVE-0-2023-53947)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-19 21:05 – Updated: 2026-04-07 14:08
VLAI?
Title
OCS Inventory NG 2.3.0.0 Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation
Summary
OCS Inventory NG 2.3.0.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to escalate privileges to system level. Attackers can place a malicious executable in the unquoted service path and trigger the service restart to execute code with elevated system privileges.
Severity ?
8.5 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-428 - Unquoted Search Path or Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
oscinventory OCS Inventory NG Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.3.0.0 (semver)
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Date Public ?
2023-04-25 00:00
Credits
msd0pe
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