CVE-2022-50921

8.5 highEPSS 0.2%

High (8.5) in wow21 wow21. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WOW21 5.0.1.9 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted binary path to inject malicious executables that will be launched with LocalSystem permissions during service startup.

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: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 12% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-428
Published: 2026-01-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

wow21:wow21

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20220220170535/https://wow21.life/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50818
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wow-service-wowservice-unquoted-service-path
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50818

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