CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-10722

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-05-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-05-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

In Cylance CylancePROTECT before 1470, an unprivileged local user can obtain SYSTEM privileges because users have Modify access to the %PROGRAMFILES%\Cylance\Desktop\log folder, the CyUpdate process grants users Modify access to new files created in this folder, and a new file can be a symlink chain to a pathname of an arbitrary DLL that CyUpdate uses.

Affected configurations

• cylance cylanceprotect (< 1470)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References