TightVNC Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Jan 2025) - Windows
🗓️ 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The vulnerability of the TightVNC remote desktop access system, related to errors in privilege management, allows a intruder to escalate their privileges. | 9 Oct 202300:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2023-27830 | 8 Feb 202506:03 | – | circl | |
| TightVNC 安全漏洞 | 12 Apr 202300:00 | – | cnnvd | |
| CVE-2023-27830 | 12 Apr 202300:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2023-27830 | 12 Apr 202300:00 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2023-27830 | 12 Apr 202300:00 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2023-31566 | 3 Oct 202520:07 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2023-27830 | 12 Apr 202315:15 | – | nvd | |
| TightVNC Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Jan 2025) - Linux | 27 Jan 202500:00 | – | openvas | |
| CVE-2023-27830 | 12 Apr 202315:15 | – | osv |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:tightvnc:tightvnc";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.834913");
script_version("2025-05-27T10:30:31+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-27830");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-05-27 10:30:31 +0000 (Tue, 27 May 2025)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-04-24 15:59:43 +0000 (Mon, 24 Apr 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2025-01-27 20:48:09 +0530 (Mon, 27 Jan 2025)");
script_name("TightVNC Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Jan 2025) - Windows");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"TightVNC is prone to an information disclosure
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present
on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists due to TightVNC mishandling
file permissions and trust during file transfer operations.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation allows an attacker
to escalate privileges on the host operating system via replacing legitimate
files with crafted files when executing a file transfer.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"TightVNC version prior to 2.8.75 on
Windows.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.8.75 or later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://medium.com/nestedif/vulnerability-disclosure-privilege-escalation-tightvnc-8165208cce");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.tightvnc.com/whatsnew.php");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("secpod_tightvnc_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("TightVNC/Win/Ver");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if(version_is_less(version:vers, test_version:"2.8.75")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"2.8.75", install_path:path);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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27 May 2025 00:00Current
9Critical risk
Vulners AI Score9
CVSS 3.19
EPSS0.01078
SSVC