CVE-2020-37231

8.5 highEPSS 0.1%

High (8.5). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.5 high

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-428
Published: 2026-05-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://www.cybertronsoft.com/
https://www.cybertronsoft.com/download/privacy-drive-setup.exe
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49023
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/privacy-drive-unquoted-service-path-privilege-escalation

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