A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Discord up to 1.0.9177 on Windows. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality in the library profapi.dll. The manipulation leads to untrusted search path. The attack needs to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control.
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https://vuldb.com/?id.293510 | vdb entry |
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.293510 | permissions required signature |
https://vuldb.com/?submit.481209 | third party advisory |