CVE-2018-12589: Polaris Office 2017 8.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse puiframeworkproresenu.dll file in the current working directory.

PriorityP354high7.8CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EXPLOIT

EPSS

20.31%

97.2th percentile

Polaris Office 2017 8.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse puiframeworkproresenu.dll file in the current working directory.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
polarisoffice	polaris_office_2017	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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Suricata

ET NETBIOS PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading - SMB ASCII

suricata·2018-07-06

CVE-2018-12589 ET NETBIOS PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading - SMB ASCII ET NETBIOS PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading - SMB ASCII Rule: alert tcp $HOME_NET [445,139] -> any any (msg:"ET NETBIOS PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading - SMB ASCII"; flow:from_server; content:"SMB"; offset:4; depth:5; byte_test:1,!&,0x80,7,relative; content:"puiframeworkproresenu|2E|dll"; nocase; distance:0; fast_pattern; reference:cve,2018-12589; reference:url,exploit-db.com/exploits/44985; classtype:attempted-user; sid:2025790; rev:2; metadata:attack_target Client_Endpoint, created_at 2018_07_06, cve CVE_2018_12589, deployment Perimeter, signature_severity Informational, updated_at 2021_09_09;)

Suricata

ET WEB_CLIENT PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading

suricata·2018-07-06

CVE-2018-12589 ET WEB_CLIENT PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading ET WEB_CLIENT PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading Rule: alert http $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:"ET WEB_CLIENT PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading"; flow:to_server; http.method; content:"GET"; http.uri; content:"puiframeworkproresenu.dll"; endswith; reference:cve,2018-12589; classtype:attempted-user; sid:2025792; rev:3; metadata:attack_target Client_Endpoint, created_at 2018_07_06, cve CVE_2018_12589, deployment Perimeter, signature_severity Minor, updated_at 2020_09_16;)

Suricata

ET NETBIOS PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading - SMB Unicode

suricata·2018-07-06

CVE-2018-12589 ET NETBIOS PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading - SMB Unicode ET NETBIOS PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading - SMB Unicode Rule: alert tcp $HOME_NET [445,139] -> any any (msg:"ET NETBIOS PolarisOffice Insecure Library Loading - SMB Unicode"; flow:from_server; content:"SMB"; offset:4; depth:5; byte_test:1,&,0x80,7,relative; content:"p|00|u|00|i|00|f|00|r|00|a|00|m|00|e|00|w|00|o|00|r|00|k|00|p|00|r|00|o|00|r|00|e|00|s|00|e|00|n|00|u|00 2E 00|d|00|l|00|l|00|"; nocase; distance:0; reference:cve,2018-12589; reference:url,exploit-db.com/exploits/44985; classtype:attempted-user; sid:2025791; rev:2; metadata:attack_target Client_Endpoint, created_at 2018_07_06, cve CVE_2018_12589, deployment Perimeter, signature_severity Informational, updated_at 2021_09_09;)