[Japanese]

JVNDB-2017-000201

Installer of Shin Kinkyuji Houkoku Data Nyuryoku Program may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries

Overview

Installer of Shin Kinkyuji Houkoku Data Nyuryoku 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).

Eili Masami of Tachibana Lab. reported this vulnerability to IPA.
JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.
CVSS Severity (What is CVSS?)

CVSS V3 Severity:
Base Metrics 7.8 (High) [IPA Score]
  • Attack Vector: Local
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: Required
  • Scope: Unchanged
  • Confidentiality Impact: High
  • Integrity Impact: High
  • Availability Impact: High
CVSS V2 Severity:
Base Metrics 6.8 (Medium) [IPA Score]
  • Access Vector: Network
  • Access Complexity: Medium
  • Authentication: None
  • Confidentiality Impact: Partial
  • Integrity Impact: Partial
  • Availability Impact: Partial
Affected Products


Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of Ministry of Economy,Trade and Industry (METI)
  • Installer of Shin Kinkyuji Houkoku Data Nyuryoku Program (version released on 2011 March 10) distributed on the website till 2017 May 17

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 Kinkyuji Houkoku Data Nyuryoku Program, be sure to check no malicious file exists in the same directory where the installer is placed.

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

Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of Ministry of Economy,Trade and Industry (METI)
CWE (What is CWE?)

  1. No Mapping(CWE-Other) [IPA Evaluation]
CVE (What is CVE?)

  1. CVE-2017-10823
References

  1. JVN : JVN#23546631
  2. JVN : JVNTA#91240916
  3. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) : CVE-2017-10823
Revision History

  • [2017/08/17]
      Web page was published
    [2018/02/14]
      References : Content was added

Date Public2017/08/17
Date First Published2017/08/17
Date Last Updated2018/02/14