CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-7834

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-09-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-09-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
a341c0d1-ebf7-493f-a84e-38cf86618674
CVSS 3.1 (a341c0d1-ebf7-493f-a84e-38cf86618674)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

A local privilege escalation is caused by Overwolf loading and executing certain dynamic link library files from a user-writeable folder in SYSTEM context on launch. This allows an attacker with unprivileged access to the system to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by placing a malicious .dll file in the respective location.

Affected configurations

• overwolf overwolf (< 250.1.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References