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CVE-2019-14969

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

Netwrix Auditor before 9.8 has insecure permissions on %PROGRAMDATA%\Netwrix Auditor\Logs\ActiveDirectory\ and sub-folders. In addition, the service Netwrix.ADA.StorageAuditService (which writes to that directory) does not perform proper impersonation, and thus the target file will have the same permissions as the invoking process (in this case, granting Authenticated Users full access over the target file). This vulnerability can be triggered by a low-privileged user to perform DLL Hijacking/Binary Planting attacks and ultimately execute code as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM with the help of Symbolic Links.

Affected products

• Netwrix Auditor: before 9.8 — fixed in 9.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Netwrix Auditor 9.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/active-labs/Advisories/blob/master/2019/ACTIVE-2019-010.md
• https://github.com/active-labs/Advisories/blob/master/2019/ACTIVE-2019-010.md

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