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CVE-2021-44596

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 22.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-29 · updated 2026-07-09

Description

Wondershare LTD Dr. Fone as of 2021-12-06 version is affected by Remote code execution. Due to software design flaws an unauthenticated user can communicate over UDP with the "InstallAssistService.exe" service(the service is running under SYSTEM privileges) and manipulate it to execute malicious executable without any validation from a remote location and gain SYSTEM privileges

Affected products

• Wondershare Dr.Fone: 2021-12-06

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167035/Wondershare-Dr.Fone-12.0.7-Privilege-Escalation.html
• https://medium.com/@tomerp_77017/wondershell-a82372914f26
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167035/Wondershare-Dr.Fone-12.0.7-Privilege-Escalation.html
• https://medium.com/%40tomerp_77017/wondershell-a82372914f26

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