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JVNDB-2018-000046

The installer of PlayMemories Home for Windows may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries

Overview

PlayMemories Home for Windows provided by Sony Corporation is Image Management Software. The installer of PlayMemories Home for Windows contains an issue with the DLL search path, which may lead to insecurely loading Dynamic Link Libraries (CWE-427).

Yuji Tounai of NTT Communications Corporation 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


Sony Corporation
  • PlayMemories Home for Windows ver.5.5.01 and earlier

Impact

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

[Apply a Workaround]
The following workaround may mitigate the impact of this vulnerability.

* Check and see if there are no suspicious files in the folder where the installer resides before executing the installer

Note that this vulnerability affects the installer only, thus users who have already installed the software do not need to re-install the software.
Vendor Information

Sony Corporation
CWE (What is CWE?)

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

  1. CVE-2018-0600
References

  1. JVN : JVN#13940333
  2. JVN : JVNTA#91240916
  3. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) : CVE-2018-0600
Revision History

  • [2018/05/24]
      Web page was published
  • [2019/07/02]
      References : Content was added

Date Public2018/05/24
Date First Published2018/05/24
Date Last Updated2019/07/02