cve-2016-10717
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-21 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 03:30
Severity ?
Summary
A vulnerability in the encryption and permission implementation of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware consumer version 2.2.1 and prior (fixed in 3.0.4) allows an attacker to take control of the whitelisting feature (exclusions.dat under %SYSTEMDRIVE%\ProgramData) to permit execution of unauthorized applications including malware and malicious websites. Files blacklisted by Malwarebytes Malware Protect can be executed, and domains blacklisted by Malwarebytes Web Protect can be reached through HTTP.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytube.net/video/16690Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/158251-malwarebytes-hall-of-fame/Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/mspaling/mbam-exclusions-poc-Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/mspaling/mbam-exclusions-poc-/blob/master/mbam-whitelist-poc.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF5ic5nOoUYThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytube.net/video/16690Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/158251-malwarebytes-hall-of-fame/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/mspaling/mbam-exclusions-poc-Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/mspaling/mbam-exclusions-poc-/blob/master/mbam-whitelist-poc.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF5ic5nOoUYThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
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