CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-19954
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427
Description
Signal Desktop before 1.29.1 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by creating a Trojan horse %SYSTEMDRIVE%\node_modules\.bin\wmic.exe file.
Affected configurations
• signal signal-desktop (< 1.29.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- https://blog.mirch.io/2019/12/18/signal-desktop-windows-lpe/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/2da39cca673cc11be3c6d70d4fb95889f9ab6688 Patch
- https://blog.mirch.io/2019/12/18/signal-desktop-windows-lpe/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/2da39cca673cc11be3c6d70d4fb95889f9ab6688 Patch