PT-2024-38613 · Overwolf · Overwolf

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Overwolf affected versions not specified Description: A local privilege escalation issue is caused by Overwolf loading and executing certain dynamic link library files from a user-writeable folder in SYSTEM context on launch. This allows an...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-21633

Apktool is a tool for reverse engineering Android APK files. In versions 2.9.1 and prior, Apktool infers resource files' output path according to their resource names which can be manipulated by attacker to place files at desired location on the system Apktool runs on. Affected environments are...

CVE-2020-28369

In BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows aka PMfW through 5.7, a SYSTEM installation causes Cryptbase.dll to be loaded from the user-writable location %WINDIR%\Temp...

Design/Logic Flaw

In BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows aka PMfW through 5.7, a SYSTEM installation causes Cryptbase.dll to be loaded from the user-writable location %WINDIR%\Temp...

CVE-2020-28369

In BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows aka PMfW through 5.7, a SYSTEM installation causes Cryptbase.dll to be loaded from the user-writable location %WINDIR%\Temp...

CVE-2023-46814

A binary hijacking vulnerability exists within the VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.19 on Windows. The uninstaller attempts to execute code with elevated privileges out of a standard user writable location. Standard users may use this to gain arbitrary code execution as SYSTEM...

SUSE CVE-2017-16933

etc/initsystem/prepare-dirs in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1 has a chown call for a filename in a user-writable directory, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the $ICINGA2USER account for creation of a link...

SUSE CVE-2019-11753

The Firefox installer allows Firefox to be installed to a custom user writable location, leaving it unprotected from manipulation by unprivileged users or malware. If the Mozilla Maintenance Service is manipulated to update this unprotected location and the updated maintenance service in the...

SUSE CVE-2020-15663

If Firefox is installed to a user-writable directory, the Mozilla Maintenance Service would execute updater.exe from the install location with system privileges. Although the Mozilla Maintenance Service does ensure that updater.exe is signed by Mozilla, the version could have been rolled back to ...

SUSE CVE-2021-3501

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.12. The value of internal.ndata, in the KVM API, is mapped to an array index, which can be updated by a user process at anytime which could lead to an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity and...

Zoom Client for Meetings < 5.3.2 Vulnerability (ZSB-21004)

The version of Zoom Client for Meetings installed on the remote host is prior to 5.3.2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ZSB-21004 advisory. - A user-writable directory created during the installation of the Zoom Client for Meetings for Windows version prior to...

Zoom Client < 5.3.2 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (ZSB-21004) - Windows

Zoom Client is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software;...

CVE-2021-34408

The Zoom Client for Meetings for Windows in all versions before version 5.3.2 writes log files to a user writable directory as a privileged user during the installation or update of the client. This could allow for potential privilege escalation if a link was created between the user writable...

CVE-2021-34410

A user-writable application bundle unpacked during the install for all versions of the Zoom Plugin for Microsoft Outlook for Mac before 5.0.25611.0521 allows for privilege escalation to root...

CVE-2021-34408

The Zoom Client for Meetings for Windows in all versions before version 5.3.2 writes log files to a user writable directory as a privileged user during the installation or update of the client. This could allow for potential privilege escalation if a link was created between the user writable...

CVE-2021-34410

A user-writable application bundle unpacked during the install for all versions of the Zoom Plugin for Microsoft Outlook for Mac before 5.0.25611.0521 allows for privilege escalation to root...

seatd-launch -- privilege escalation with SUID

Kenny Levinsen reports: seatd-launch used execlp, which reads the PATH environment variable to search for the requested executable, to execute seatd. This meant that the caller could freely control what executable was loaded by adding a user-writable directory to PATH. If seatd-launch had the SUI...

Microsoft Windows UAC Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Hi @ll, Microsoft still ships Windows with and lets it create user-writable directories below the "Windows" directory %SystemRoot%\ -- despite that, with exception of %SystemRoot%\Temp, they are all used to store DATA and SHOULD have been placed below %ProgramData% alias %SystemDrive%\ProgramData...

Microsoft Windows UAC Privilege Escalation

Hi @ll, Microsoft still ships Windows with and lets it create user-writable directories below the "Windows" directory %SystemRoot%\ -- despite that, with exception of %SystemRoot%\Temp, they are all used to store DATA and SHOULD have been placed below %ProgramData% alias %SystemDrive%\ProgramData...

CVE-2020-24559

A vulnerability in Trend Micro Apex One, Worry-Free Business Security 10.0 SP1 and Worry-Free Business Security Services on macOS may allow an attacker to manipulate a certain binary to load and run a script from a user-writable folder, which then would allow them to execute arbitrary code as roo...