CVE-2021-44226 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Razer Synapse before 3.7.0228.022817 allows privilege escalation because it relies on %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer\Synapse3\Service\bin even if %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer has been created by any unprivileged user before Synapse is installed. The unprivileged user may have placed Trojan horse DLLs there.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00084.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Microsoft	Windows
Razer	Synapse

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:razer:synapse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166485/Razer-Synapse-3.6.x-DLL-Hijacking.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170772/Razer-Synapse-3.7.0731.072516-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174696/Razer-Synapse-Race-Condition-DLL-Hijacking.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Mar/51
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/26
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Sep/6
https://www.razer.com/community
https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2021-058.txt

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00062}`	epss `{'score': 0.00064}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-03-23T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:17:24.676Z

Reserved: 2021-11-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-44226

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-03-23T22:15:12.937

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:30:37.663

Link: CVE-2021-44226

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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