CVE-2017-11742

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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
2026-04-10T03:55:01.948283Z
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
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
c4446687cfc6c5fd7f6371aeaf24c69402a3589e
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
7c3eedb20b287c5b3e026eaebf657e3c38981329
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
REC1_0
R_1_95_0
R_1_95_2
R_1_95_3
R_1_95_4
R_1_95_5
R_1_95_6
R_1_95_7
R_1_95_8
R_2_0_0
R_2_0_1
R_2_1_0
R_2_1_1
R_2_2_0
R_2_2_1
R_2_2_2
V1990307
V19981122
V19981231
V19990109
V19990425
V19990626
V19990709
V19990728
V19991013
V1_0
V1_1
V20000512
beta2
beta3
beta4
jclark-orig
libexpat-alpha-1
sourceforge_init
start

Database specific

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