CVE-2016-1417

PoC ×4—

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

EPSS

4%p91

Published

Jan 23, 2017 (Jan 23, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: snort
Products: snort
Weakness: CWE-426
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (4.4%)

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