CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-15511
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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-306
Description
An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the GalaxyClientService installed by GOG Galaxy. Due to Improper Access Control, an attacker can send unauthenticated local TCP packets to the service to gain SYSTEM privileges in Windows system where GOG Galaxy software is installed. All GOG Galaxy versions before 1.2.60 and all corresponding versions of GOG Galaxy 2.0 Beta are affected.
Affected configurations
• gog galaxy (< 1.2.60)
• gog galaxy (>= 2.0.0 <= 2.0.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness
References
- https://cqureacademy.com/cqure-labs/cqlabs-cve-2019-15511-broken-access-control-in-gog-galaxy Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025458833-GOG-GALAXY-2-0-updates-and-known-issues Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://cqureacademy.com/cqure-labs/cqlabs-cve-2019-15511-broken-access-control-in-gog-galaxy Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025458833-GOG-GALAXY-2-0-updates-and-known-issues Release Notes, Vendor Advisory