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CRITICAL

CVE-2021-38469

CVE-2021-38469 — AUVESY Versiondog

Many of the services used by the affected product do not specify full paths for the DLLs they are loading. An attacker can exploit the uncontrolled search path by implanting their own DLL near the affected product’s binaries, thus hijacking the loaded DLL.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, icscert

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

auvesy

versiondog

CVSS base

9.1

CRITICAL

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

auvesy

Products (1)

versiondog

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
9.1CVSS 3.1CRITICAL——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-427

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1574.007Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable
  • T1574.009Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by Unquoted Path
  • T1574.001Hijack Execution Flow: DLL search order hijacking

References

1 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • auvesyevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-427other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.