CVE-2020-37231
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2020-37231, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-05-16

Last updated on: 2026-05-16

Assigner: VulnCheck

Description

Privacy Drive 3.17.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the pdsvc.exe service binary that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by exploiting the service startup process. Attackers can place malicious executables in the unquoted path directories to execute arbitrary code with LocalSystem privileges during service startup or system reboot.

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Meta Information

Published
2026-05-16
Last Modified
2026-05-16
Generated
2026-06-30
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-28
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Affected Vendors & Products

Currently, no data is known.

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Exploitability

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CWE ID Description
CWE-428 The product uses a search path that contains an unquoted element, in which the element contains whitespace or other separators. This can cause the product to access resources in a parent path.

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