CVE-2017-11742

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11742
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11742.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-11742
Published
2017-07-30T14:29:00.207Z
Modified
2026-07-08T15:10:12.473817Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The writeRandomBytes_RtlGenRandom function in xmlparse.c in libexpat in Expat 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse ADVAPI32.DLL in the current working directory because of an untrusted search path, aka DLL hijacking.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libexpat/libexpat

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat
Events
Database specific
{
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.2.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.2.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.2"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.2.1
2.2.2
Other
R_2_2_1
R_2_2_2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11742.json"