CVE-2021-47945

Summary

Argus Surveillance DVR 4.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the DVRWatchdog service that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by exploiting the service binary path. Attackers can place a malicious executable in the Program Files directory to be executed with LocalSystem privileges when the service starts.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
argusArgus Surveillance DVRArgus Surveillance DVR 4.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-428: Unquoted Search Path or Element

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References