CVE-2022-39959: Panini Everest Engine

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Panini Everest Engine 2.0.4 allows unprivileged users to create a file named Everest.exe in the %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini folder. This leads to privilege escalation because a service, running as SYSTEM, uses the unquoted path of %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini\Everest Engine\EverestEngine.exe and therefore a Trojan horse %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini\Everest.exe may be executed instead of the intended vendor-supplied EverestEngine.exe file.

Affected products

• Panini Everest Engine: version 2.0.4 only

Published 2022-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.