CVE-2023-50914 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2024-04-30

Score: 6.7 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00701.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/anvilsecure/gog-galaxy-app-research
https://github.com/anvilsecure/gog-galaxy-app-research/blob/main/advisories/CVE-2023-50914%20-%20LPE.md
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/categories/201553005-Downloads-Installing?product=gog
https://www.positronsecurity.com/blog/2020-08-13-gog-galaxy_client-local-privilege-escalation_deuce/

History

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Subscriptions

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-04-30T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T22:23:43.874Z

Reserved: 2023-12-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-50914

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T22:23:43.874Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-04-30T14:15:10.820

Modified: 2026-06-17T06:40:12.727

Link: CVE-2023-50914

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-279
Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions

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