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JVNDB-2026-000074

Vulnerability from jvndb - Published: 2026-05-14 07:16 - Updated:2026-05-14 07:16

Severity

7.8 (High) - cvssV3_0 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

WPS Office improper access restriction to its named pipe

Details

WPS Office provided by WPS SOFTWARE PTE. LTD. contains a service program running background and providing certain functionalities to the other programs. This service program uses a named pipe to communicate with the other programs. The named pipe above is not properly protected and any non-administrative user can access it.

Exposed dangerous method or function (CWE-749) - CVE-2018-6400

MASAHIRO IIDA of LAC Co., Ltd. reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.

References

Type

URL

	JVN	https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN14434132/index.html
	CVE	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6400
	No Mapping(CWE-Other)	https://www.ipa.go.jp/en/security/vulnerabilities/cwe.html

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

	WPS	KINGSOFT PDF Pro
	WPS	WPS Cloud
	WPS	WPS Cloud Pro
	WPS	WPS Office2

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CVE-2018-6400 (GCVE-0-2018-6400)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-12 21:00 – Updated: 2026-05-14 18:21

Summary

Kingsoft WPS Office Free 10.2.0.5978 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service by impersonating all the pipes through a use of \\.\pipe\WPSCloudSvr\WpsCloudSvr -- an "insecurely created named pipe." Ensures full access to Everyone users group.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2314 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Mar/27	mailing-list
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN14434132/
https://www.wps365.jp/notices/4

Date Public

2018-03-06 00:00

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