In Cylance CylancePROTECT before 1470, an unprivileged local user can obtain SYSTEM privileges because users have Modify access to the %PROGRAMFILES%\Cylance\Desktop\log folder, the CyUpdate process grants users Modify access to new files created in this folder, and a new file can be a symlink chain to a pathname of an arbitrary DLL that CyUpdate uses.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-2792 In Cylance CylancePROTECT before 1470, an unprivileged local user can obtain SYSTEM privileges because users have Modify access to the %PROGRAMFILES%\Cylance\Desktop\log folder, the CyUpdate process grants users Modify access to new files created in this folder, and a new file can be a symlink chain to a pathname of an arbitrary DLL that CyUpdate uses.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T07:46:46.449Z

Reserved: 2018-05-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-10722

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-05-04T00:29:00.220

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:41:55.443

Link: CVE-2018-10722

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