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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2019-8385 EUVD-2019-17775GHSA-2f7w-8245-v7w6

An issue was discovered in Thomson Reuters Desktop Extensions 1.9.0.358. An unauthenticated directory traversal and local file inclusion vu…

Published Jun 5, 2019 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in Thomson Reuters Desktop Extensions 1.9.0.358. An unauthenticated directory traversal and local file inclusion vulnerability in the ThomsonReuters.Desktop.Service.exe and ThomsonReuters.Desktop.exe allows a remote attacker to list or enumerate sensitive contents of files via a \.. to port 6677. Additionally, this could allow for privilege escalation by dumping the affected machine's SAM and SYSTEM database files, as well as remote code execution.

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