Vulnerability · Published Oct 8, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-26894
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 38% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 62.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
LiveCode v9.6.1 on Windows allows local, low-privileged users to gain privileges by creating a malicious "cmd.exe" in the folder of the vulnerable LiveCode application. If the application is using LiveCode's "shell()" function, it will attempt to search for "cmd.exe" in the folder of the current application and run the malicious "cmd.exe".
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://john-woodman.com/posts/LiveCode-Privilege-Escalation-Vulnerability/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22942 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/7454 x_refsource_MISC