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CVE-2018-17612

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-11-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

Sennheiser HeadSetup 7.3.4903 places Certification Authority (CA) certificates into the Trusted Root CA store of the local system, and publishes the private key in the SennComCCKey.pem file within the public software distribution, which allows remote attackers to spoof arbitrary web sites or software publishers for several years, even if the HeadSetup product is uninstalled. NOTE: a vulnerability-assessment approach must check all Windows systems for CA certificates with a CN of 127.0.0.1 or SennComRootCA, and determine whether those certificates are unwanted.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607: 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809
• Microsoft Windows 7: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 8.1: all versions
• Microsoft Windows RT 8.1: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: r2-sp1
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012: r2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: 1709, 1803
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019: all versions
• Sennheiser Headsetup: 7.3.4903

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106045
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/ADV180029
• https://www.secorvo.de/publikationen/headsetup-vulnerability-report-secorvo-2018.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106045
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/ADV180029
• https://www.secorvo.de/publikationen/headsetup-vulnerability-report-secorvo-2018.pdf

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