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CVE-2017-7293

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-502

Description

The Dolby DAX2 and DAX3 API services are vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows a normal user to get arbitrary system privileges, because these services have .NET code for DCOM. This affects Dolby Audio X2 (DAX2) 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, and 1.4.4 and Dolby Audio X3 (DAX3) 1.0 and 1.1. An example affected driver is Realtek Audio Driver 6.0.1.7898 on a Lenovo P50.

Affected products

• Dolby Audio X2: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 1.3 (+7)
• Dolby Audio X3: 1.0, 1.1

References

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1075
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41933/
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1075
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41933/

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