Flexsense DiskBoss Service Unquoted Service Path Vulnerability

Advisories

severity: high
date: December 5, 2025
Affecting: 11.7.28
11.7.28
11.7.28
11.7.28
11.7.28
11.7.28
11.7.28
CVE: CVE-2020-36879
CVE type: CWE-428 Unquoted Search Path or Element
CVSS: 8.5
CVSS V4 Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
References: ExploitDB-49022
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Credit: Mohammed Alshehri, m507
Description: Flexsense DiskBoss 11.7.28 allows unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges using any of its services, enabling remote code execution during startup or reboot with escalated privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted service path vulnerability by specifying a malicious service name in the 'sc qc' command, allowing them to execute arbitrary system commands.