CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-28142

7.0 HIGH Published 2023-04-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-04-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

A Race Condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions from 3.1.3.34 and before 4.5.3.1. This allows attackers to escalate privileges limited on the local machine during uninstallation of the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows. Attackers may gain SYSTEM level privileges on that asset to run arbitrary commands. At the time of this disclosure, versions before 4.0 are classified as End of Life.

Affected configurations

• qualys cloud agent (>= 3.1.3.34 < 4.5.3.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References