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CVE-2017-13779

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-09-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

GSTN_offline_tool in India Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) Offline Utility tool before 1.2 executes winstart-server.vbs from the "C:\GST Offline Tool" directory, which has insecure permissions. This allows local users to gain privileges by replacing winstart-server.vbs with arbitrary VBScript code. For example, a local user could create VBScript code for a TCP reverse shell, and use that later for Remote Command Execution.

Affected products

• Gstn India Goods And Services Tax Network Offline Utility Tool: through 1.1

References

• https://tink2hack.blogspot.in/2017/09/writeup-of-cve-2017-13779-remote.html
• https://tink2hack.blogspot.in/2017/09/writeup-of-cve-2017-13779-remote.html

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