CVE-2018-20341

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-428

Description

WINMAGIC SecureDoc Disk Encryption software before 8.3 has an Unquoted Service Path vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a target system. If the executable is enclosed in quote tags "" then the system will know where to find it. However if the path of where the application binary is located doesn't contain any quotes then Windows will try to find it and execute it inside every folder of this path until they reach the executable.

Affected products

Winmagic Securedoc Disk Encryption: before 8.3 — fixed in 8.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Winmagic Securedoc Disk Encryption 8.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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