Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-1417

RCE

Title: Snort RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-1417.

CWE Category CWE-426

Published Date Jan 23, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.26%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-1417: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Snort 2.9.7.0-WIN32 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse tcapi.dll that is located in the same folder on a remote file share as a pcap file that is being processed.

Impacted Vendors

snort 1

martin_roesch 1

Reference Links

http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/SNORT-DLL-HIJACK.txt http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138915/Snort-2.9.7.0-WIN32-DLL-Hijacking.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539579/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93269 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036936 http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/SNORT-DLL-HIJACK.txt http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138915/Snort-2.9.7.0-WIN32-DLL-Hijacking.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539579/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93269 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036936

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns