CVE-2020-37231

Privacy Drive 3.17.0 Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation

CVSS 8.5 HIGHEPSS 0.1%CWE-428

Vexday Risk Score

41Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

CVSS 8.5EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

16 May 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

Privacy Drive 3.17.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the pdsvc.exe service binary that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by exploiting the service startup process. Attackers can place malicious executables in the unquoted path directories to execute arbitrary code with LocalSystem privileges during service startup or system reboot.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

Cybertronsoft · Privacy Drive

public PoCs found — 1

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/49023unverified

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References

https://www.cybertronsoft.com/https://www.cybertronsoft.com/download/privacy-drive-setup.exe https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49023 https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/privacy-drive-unquoted-service-path-privilege-escalation