CVE-2022-50933

8.5 highEPSS 0.2%

High (8.5) in malavida cain \& abel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cain & Abel 4.9.56 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted binary path to inject malicious executables that will be launched with LocalSystem permissions.

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 10% 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

malavida:cain_\&_abel

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50728
https://www.malavida.com/en/soft/cain-and-abel
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cain-abel-unquoted-service-path
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50728

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