CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-50914
6.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2024-04-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-279
Description
A Privilege Escalation issue in the inter-process communication procedure from GOG Galaxy (Beta) 2.0.67.2 through v2.0.71.2 allows authentictaed users to change the DACL of arbitrary system directories to include Everyone full control permissions by modifying the FixDirectoryPrivileges instruction parameters sent from GalaxyClient.exe to GalaxyClientService.exe.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-279 Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions weakness
References
- https://github.com/anvilsecure/gog-galaxy-app-research github.com
- https://github.com/anvilsecure/gog-galaxy-app-research/blob/main/advisories/CVE-2023-50914%20-%20LPE.md github.com
- https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/categories/201553005-Downloads-Installing?product=gog support.gog.com
- https://www.positronsecurity.com/blog/2020-08-13-gog-galaxy_client-local-privilege-escalation_deuce/ www.positronsecurity.com
- https://github.com/anvilsecure/gog-galaxy-app-research github.com
- https://github.com/anvilsecure/gog-galaxy-app-research/blob/main/advisories/CVE-2023-50914%20-%20LPE.md github.com
- https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/categories/201553005-Downloads-Installing?product=gog support.gog.com
- https://www.positronsecurity.com/blog/2020-08-13-gog-galaxy_client-local-privilege-escalation_deuce/ www.positronsecurity.com