CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-31262
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-17
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-281
Description
An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in GOG Galaxy 2.0.46. Due to insufficient folder permissions, an attacker can hijack the %ProgramData%\GOG.com folder structure and change the GalaxyCommunication service executable to a malicious file, resulting in code execution as SYSTEM.
Affected configurations
• gog galaxy (>= 2.0.46 <= 2.0.51)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions weakness
References
- https://github.com/secure-77/CVE-2022-31262 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://secure77.de/category/subjects/researches/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://secure77.de/gog-galaxy-cve-2022-31262/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgdbx5TJShI Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/secure-77/CVE-2022-31262 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://secure77.de/category/subjects/researches/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://secure77.de/gog-galaxy-cve-2022-31262/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgdbx5TJShI Exploit, Third Party Advisory