CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-4996

8.8 HIGH Published 2023-11-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-11-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-281

Description

Netskope was made aware of a security vulnerability in its NSClient product for version 100 & prior where a malicious non-admin user can disable the Netskope client by using a specially-crafted package. The root cause of the problem was a user control code when called by a Windows ServiceController did not validate the permissions associated with the user before executing the user control code. This user control code had permissions to terminate the NSClient service. 

Affected configurations

• netskope netskope (< 101)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions weakness

References