CVE-2024-47856

In RSA Authentication Agent before 7.4.7, service paths and shortcut paths may be vulnerable to path interception if the path has one or more spaces and is not surrounded by quotation marks. An adversary can place an executable in a higher-level directory of the path, and Windows will resolve tha...

CVE-2024-47856

RSA Authentication Agent (before 7.4.7) is affected by a path interception flaw in Windows: if a service/shortcut path contains spaces and is not quoted, an attacker could place an executable in a higher-level directory, causing Windows to execute the unintended file. This has been documented acr...

Vulnerabilities that aren’t. Unquoted Spaces

I’ve covered a couple of web vulnerabilities that mostly aren’t, and now it’s time for a Windows specific one. A common finding from build reviews and CIS comparisons: unquoted spaces in service or run paths. What is it? Windows has always been inconsistent in how its API handles uncommon...