Kolide Agent for Windows >= 1.5.3 < 1.12.3 Privilege Escalation (CVE-2024-54131)

The version of Kolide Agent for Windows installed on the remote host is greater or equal to 1.5.3 and prior to 1.12.3. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported...

CVE-2024-54131

CVE-2024-54131 (Kolide Agent / launcher, Windows): An implementation bug introduced in 1.5.3, where launcher started storing upgraded binaries in ProgramData and inherited looser root permissions, combined with an omitted SystemDrive env var when launcher starts osqueryd, enables local attackers ...