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Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point

CVE-2024-7400

High
8.5/10

Summary

The vulnerability potentially allowed an attacker to misuse ESET’s file operations during the removal of a detected file on the Windows operating system to delete files without having proper permissions to do so.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-1386 - Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point

The software opens a file or directory, but it does not properly prevent the name from being associated with a junction or mount point to a destination that is outside of the intended control sphere.

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  • Published