Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6384",
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    "title": "CVE-2018-6384",
    "summary": "Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in NSClient++ before 0.4.1.73 allows non-privileged local users to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the system via a malicious program.exe executable in the %SYSTEMDRIVE% folder.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T14:08:58.974127659Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://nsclient.org/blog/2018/01/30/CVE-2018-6384-0.3.9/",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 443118,
  "published_at": "2018-01-31T16:29:00.307+00:00"
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