{"id":75846,"date":"2026-01-28T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2020-36986-prey-1-9-6-cronservice-unquoted-service-path\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:28:59","slug":"cve-2020-36986-prey-1-9-6-cronservice-unquoted-service-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2020-36986-prey-1-9-6-cronservice-unquoted-service-path\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2020-36986 &#8211; Prey 1.9.6 &#8211; &#8220;CronService&#8221; Unquoted Service Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2020-36986<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Jan. 28, 2026, 12:28 p.m. | 38\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : Prey 1.9.6 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local users to potentially execute code with elevated privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted path in the CronService to insert malicious code that would execute during application startup or system reboot.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 8.5 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2020-36986 Published : Jan. 28, 2026, 12:28 p.m. | 38\u00a0minutes ago Description : Prey 1.9.6 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local users to potentially execute code with elevated privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted path in the CronService to insert malicious code that would execute during application startup or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}