An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in GOG Galaxy 2.0.46. Due to insufficient folder permissions, an attacker can hijack the %ProgramData%\GOG.com folder structure and change the GalaxyCommunication service executable to a malicious file, resulting in code execution as SYSTEM.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-08-17T14:37:42

Updated: 2024-08-03T07:11:39.895Z

Reserved: 2022-05-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-31262

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-08-17T15:15:08.307

Modified: 2022-10-28T13:17:20.707

Link: CVE-2022-31262

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