JVN#73559859: Installer of Shin Kikan Toukei Houkoku Data Nyuryokuyou Program may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries

Installer of Shin Kikan Toukei Houkoku Data Nyuryokuyou Program provided by Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of METI contains an issue with the DLL search path, which may lead to insecurely loading Dynamic Link Libraries (CWE-427).

Impact

Arbitrary code may be executed with the privilege of the user invoking the installer.

Solution

Use the latest installer
Use the latest installer according to the information provided by the developer.

When installing Shin Kikan Toukei Houkoku Data Nyuryokuyou Program, be sure to check there are no suspicious files besides “setup基幹統計入力.exe” in the folder which was extracted from the zip file.

Note that this vulnerability affects the installer only, thus users who have already installed Shin Kikan Toukei Houkoku Data Nyuryokuyou Program do not need to re-install the software using the latest installer.

Products Affected

• Installer of Shin Kikan Toukei Houkoku Data Nyuryokuyou Program (version released on 2013 September 30), “setup基幹統計入力.exe” (distributed on the website till 2017 May 17)