CVE-2018-4051 (GCVE-0-2018-4051)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-04-02 15:19
Modified
2024-08-05 05:04
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • improper input validation
Summary
An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the privileged helper tool of GOG Galaxy's Games, version 1.2.47 for macOS. An attacker can globally create directories and subdirectories on the root file system, as well as change the permissions of existing directories.
References
talos-cna@cisco.comhttps://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0725Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0725Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GOG.COM GOG Galaxy Version: Gog Galaxy 1.2.47 (macOS)
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