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GOG Galaxy Desktop App | Local Privilege Escalation | CVE-2020-11827

Vendor: https://www.gog.com/galaxy

Versions Affected: Prior to 1.2.67

Vulnerability: Local Privilege Escalation

Discoverer: Fatih Çelik

CVE: CVE-2020-11827

CVSS 3.x Base Score: 7.8 HIGH

Description:

In GOG Galaxy 1.2.67, there is a service that is vulnerable to weak file/service permissions: GalaxyClientService.exe. An attacker can put malicious service as a GalaxyClientService.exe. After that, the attacker can re-start this service as an unprivileged user to escalate his/her privileges and run commands on the machine with SYSTEM rights.

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