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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2017-7293 json

The Dolby DAX2 and DAX3 API services are vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows a normal user to get arbitrary syst…

published 2017-04-26 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16322

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The Dolby DAX2 and DAX3 API services are vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows a normal user to get arbitrary system privileges, because these services have .NET code for DCOM. This affects Dolby Audio X2 (DAX2) 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, and 1.4.4 and Dolby Audio X3 (DAX3) 1.0 and 1.1. An example affected driver is Realtek Audio Driver 6.0.1.7898 on a Lenovo P50.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-41933)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

2.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-41933 Realtek Audio Driver 6.0.1.7898 (Windows 10) - Dolby Audio X2 Service Privilege Escalation local, 2017-04-25

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

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