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Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows Uncontrolled Search Path Vulnerability

Published Feb 19, 2020 ·Due Nov 14, 2022

Description

A vulnerability in the installer component of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows could allow an authenticated local attacker to copy user-supplied files to system level directories with system level privileges. The vulnerability is due to the incorrect handling of directory paths. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a malicious file and copying the file to a system directory. An exploit could allow the attacker to copy malicious files to arbitrary locations with system level privileges. This could include DLL pre-loading, DLL hijacking, and other related attacks. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker needs valid credentials on the Windows system.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (7)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Feb 19, 2020
Updated Aug 12, 2026
Reserved Dec 12, 2019
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Nov 8, 2024
NVD
Status Analyzed
Modified Aug 12, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner cisco
Published Feb 19, 2020
Updated Aug 12, 2026
Exploited since Oct 24, 2022
EUVD-2020-24424