9.3crit
CVE-2018-3974
An exploitable local privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the file system permissions of GOG Galaxy's install directory.
Published 7 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
9.3
v3.0 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.5%
percentile 45%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
An exploitable local privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the file system permissions of GOG Galaxy's install directory. An attacker can overwrite an executable that is launched as a system service on boot by default to exploit this vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with system privileges.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.53% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.0 | 9.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 3.1 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| CNA | 3.0 | 9.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
Affected products
- GOG.COM GOG Galaxy
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
References
- talosintelligence.com /vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0640 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2018-3974
- NVD: CVE-2018-3974
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