Path transversal in some Intel(R) NUC Kits & Mini PCs - NUC8i7HVK & NUC8HNK USB Type C power delivery controller installatio software before version 1.0.10.3 for Windows may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
This entry has been deprecated because of name confusion and an accidental combination of multiple weaknesses. Most of its content has been transferred to CWE-785.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usb_type_c_power_delivery_controller | Intel | * | 1.0.10.3 (excluding) |
This entry was deprecated for several reasons. The primary reason is over-loading of the “path manipulation” term and the description. The original description for this entry was the same as that for the “Often Misused: File System” item in the original Seven Pernicious Kingdoms paper. However, Seven Pernicious Kingdoms also has a “Path Manipulation” phrase that is for external control of pathnames (CWE-73), which is a factor in symbolic link following and path traversal, neither of which is explicitly mentioned in 7PK. Fortify uses the phrase “Often Misused: Path Manipulation” for a broader range of problems, generally for issues related to buffer management. Given the multiple conflicting uses of this term, there is a chance that CWE users may have incorrectly mapped to this entry. The second reason for deprecation is an implied combination of multiple weaknesses within buffer-handling functions. The focus of this entry was generally on the path-conversion functions and their association with buffer overflows. However, some of Fortify’s Vulncat entries have the term “path manipulation” but describe a non-overflow weakness in which the buffer is not guaranteed to contain the entire pathname, i.e., there is information truncation (see CWE-222 for a similar concept). A new entry for this non-overflow weakness may be created in a future version of CWE.