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CVE-2021-33436 (GCVE-0-2021-33436)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-28 10:57 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:50
VLAI
Summary
NoMachine for Windows prior to version 6.15.1 and 7.5.2 suffer from local privilege escalation due to the lack of safe DLL loading. This vulnerability allows local non-privileged users to perform DLL Hijacking via any writable directory listed under the system path and ultimately execute code as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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