CVE-2023-50914

Impact

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.

Affected packages

This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• 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/
• 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/