CVE-2017-2157
Untrusted search path vulnerability in installers for The Public Certification Service for Individuals "The JPKI user's software (for…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- jpcert
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in installers for The Public Certification Service for Individuals "The JPKI user's software (for Windows 7 and later)" Ver3.1 and earlier, The Public Certification Service for Individuals "The JPKI user's software (for Windows Vista)", The Public Certification Service for Individuals "The JPKI user's software" Ver2.6 and earlier that were available until April 27, 2017 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By jpcert
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.51% · top 57% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Weakness
- Untrusted search path vulnerability
- CWE-426 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-426 and its CVEs
Affected products
Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems · Installer for The Public Certification Service for Individuals "The JPKI user's software (for Windows 7 and later)"
- affected Ver3.1 and earlier that was available until April 27, 2017
Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems · Installer for The Public Certification Service for Individuals "The JPKI user's software (for Windows Vista)"
- affected available until April 27, 2017
Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems · Installer for The Public Certification Service for Individuals "The JPKI user's software"
- affected Ver2.6 and earlier that was available until April 27, 2017
References (2)
- https://www.jpki.go.jp/download/win.html#dl (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- JVN#39605485 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-2157)Record last updated .