CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-12441
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-10-11
- 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-276
Description
The CorsairService Service in Corsair Utility Engine is installed with insecure default permissions, which allows unprivileged local users to execute arbitrary commands via modification of the CorsairService BINARY_PATH_NAME, leading to complete control of the affected system. The issue exists due to the Windows "Everyone" group being granted SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS permissions to the CorsairService Service.
Affected configurations
• corsair corsair utility engine 3.2.87
• corsair corsair utility engine 3.3.103
• corsair corsair utility engine 3.4.95
• corsair corsair utility engine 3.6.109
• corsair corsair utility engine 3.7.99
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- https://github.com/TheRealJoeDoran/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-12441/CVE-2018-12441.txt Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/TheRealJoeDoran/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-12441/CVE-2018-12441.txt Third Party Advisory