osquery susceptible to DLL search order hijacking of zlib1.dll
CVE-2020-11081

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Key Information:

Vendor: Osquery
Status: Osquery
Vendor: CVE Published:; 10 July 2020

What is CVE-2020-11081?

osquery before version 4.4.0 enables a privilege escalation vulnerability. If a Window system is configured with a PATH that contains a user-writable directory then a local user may write a zlib1.dll DLL, which osquery will attempt to load. Since osquery runs with elevated privileges this enables local escalation. This is fixed in version 4.4.0.