Description
Legacy Update is a tool for activating and installing updates on legacy Windows PCs. Legacy Update 1.12.0 through 1.13.1 contains an origin validation error in the IsPermitted method of its ActiveX control. After successfully reading the hosting document's hostname, a hostname that is not on the permitted list falls through without setting E_ACCESSDENIED, causing IsPermitted to return S_OK. An attacker who induces a user to visit a malicious webpage in Internet Explorer can invoke the control to enumerate update and system information, install updates without consent, display dialogs, or restart the computer when a reboot is pending. This issue was fixed in Legacy Update 1.13.2.
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Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:15:00 +0000
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| Description | Legacy Update is a tool for activating and installing updates on legacy Windows PCs. Legacy Update 1.12.0 through 1.13.1 contains an origin validation error in the IsPermitted method of its ActiveX control. After successfully reading the hosting document's hostname, a hostname that is not on the permitted list falls through without setting E_ACCESSDENIED, causing IsPermitted to return S_OK. An attacker who induces a user to visit a malicious webpage in Internet Explorer can invoke the control to enumerate update and system information, install updates without consent, display dialogs, or restart the computer when a reboot is pending. This issue was fixed in Legacy Update 1.13.2. | |
| Title | Legacy Update ActiveX control accepts unauthorized hosting origins | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-346 CWE-393 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-10-13T21:08:05.334Z
Reserved: 2026-09-24T14:16:20.201Z
Link: CVE-2026-97381
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-13T22:19:45.427
Modified: 2026-10-13T22:19:45.427
Link: CVE-2026-97381
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