CVE-2018-16183

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-428

Description

An unquoted search path vulnerability in some pre-installed applications on Panasonic PC run on Windows 7 (32bit), Windows 7 (64bit), Windows 8 (64bit), Windows 8.1 (64bit), Windows 10 (64bit) delivered in or later than October 2009 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file and execute arbitrary code with eleveted privileges.

Affected products

Panasonic System Interface Device 0021: all versions
Panasonic System Interface Device 0040: all versions

References

https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN36895151/index.html
https://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/dl/docs/077770
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN36895151/index.html
https://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/dl/docs/077770

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