Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in GOG Galaxy Client Allows Authenticated Users to Grant Full Control Permissions to Everyone
CVE-2023-50914

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

GOG Galaxy

Vendor
CVE Published:
30 April 2024

What is CVE-2023-50914?

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.

References

https://www.positronsecurity.com/blog/2020-08-13-gog-gala...
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/categories/201553005-Dow...
https://github.com/anvilsecure/gog-galaxy-app-research

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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