CVE-2023-2331 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Unquoted service Path or Element vulnerability in 42Gears Surelock Windows SureLock Service (NixService.Exe) on Windows application will allows to insert arbitrary code into the service.
This issue affects Surelock Windows : from 2.3.12 through 2.40.0.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00053.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
42gears	Surelock

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:42gears:surelock:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-33831	Unquoted service Path or Element vulnerability in 42Gears Surelock Windows SureLock Service (NixService.Exe) on Windows application will allows to insert arbitrary code into the service. This issue affects Surelock Windows : from 2.3.12 through 2.40.0.

Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to SureLock windows agent version 2.41.0

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://www.42gears.com/security-and-compliance
https://www.42gears.com/security-and-compliance/42g-2023-001/

History

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: 42Gears

Published: 2023-04-27T11:51:45.946Z

Updated: 2025-01-30T21:00:57.199Z

Reserved: 2023-04-27T09:20:29.336Z

Link: CVE-2023-2331

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:19:14.680Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-27T12:15:09.070

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:58:24.147

Link: CVE-2023-2331

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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