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🛡️ CVE-2026-7280

🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-428 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
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Description

AVACAST developed by eMPIA Technology has a Unquoted Service Path vulnerability, allowing privileged local attackers to place a malicious executable file in a specific directory, resulting in arbitrary code execution with system privileges when the AVACAST service starts.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-7280 is classified as CWE-428: Unquoted Search Path or Element. A path containing spaces is used unquoted, so the system may execute a different file than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2026-7280 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 28 April 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.twcert.org.tw
www.twcert.org.tw

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-428: Unquoted Search Path or Element) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-428
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-28
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

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