Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation in System Care

Advanced System Care Service versions up to 13.0.0.157 suffer from an unquoted service path vulnerability that enables local privilege escalation to LocalSystem level. This weakness occurs when the Windows service binary path lacks quotation marks, allowing attackers to inject malicious executables into the system root directory that execute with elevated privileges during service startup or system reboot. Organizations running this software are at risk, particularly in multi-user environments where local attackers can exploit this design flaw to gain complete system control without requiring administrator credentials.

While this CVE maps to CWE-428 (Unquoted Search Path) rather than specific MITRE ATT&CK techniques, Casky's extended reasoning capabilities would identify the attack patterns across Privilege Escalation and Persistence techniques. Practitioners using Casky would see findings related to suspicious executable placement in system root directories, abnormal service startup behavior, and file write anomalies preceding service restarts. The platform's 754 mapped security skills would correlate indicators such as unexpected binaries in C:\ root paths, service configuration changes, and LocalSystem process execution chains—surfacing the attack progression from initial file placement to privilege escalation that characterizes this vulnerability class.