CVE-2019-15315

Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-16 allows privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM because local users can replace the current versions of SteamService.exe and SteamService.dll with older versions that lack the CVE-2019-14743 patch...

CVE-2019-15316

Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-20 has weak folder permissions, leading to privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM via crafted use of CreateMountPoint.exe and SetOpLock.exe to leverage a TOCTOU race condition...

CVE-2019-15315

Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-16 allows privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM because local users can replace the current versions of SteamService.exe and SteamService.dll with older versions that lack the CVE-2019-14743 patch...

Privilege escalation

Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-16 allows privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM because local users can replace the current versions of SteamService.exe and SteamService.dll with older versions that lack the CVE-2019-14743 patch...

Race condition

Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-20 has weak folder permissions, leading to privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM via crafted use of CreateMountPoint.exe and SetOpLock.exe to leverage a TOCTOU race condition...

CVE-2019-15316

Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-20 has weak folder permissions, leading to privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM via crafted use of CreateMountPoint.exe and SetOpLock.exe to leverage a TOCTOU race condition...

CVE-2019-15316

Affected product: Valve Steam Client for Windows (through 2019-08-20). The vulnerability is caused by weak folder permissions that enable a TOCTOU race condition, exploited via crafted use of CreateMountPoint.exe and SetOpLock.exe to escalate privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Connected documents...

CVE-2019-15315

Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-16 allows privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM because local users can replace the current versions of SteamService.exe and SteamService.dll with older versions that lack the CVE-2019-14743 patch...

CVE-2019-15315

The CVE-2019-15315 entry concerns Valve Steam Client for Windows (up to 2019-08-16). Local attackers can achieve NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privilege escalation by replacing the SteamService.exe and SteamService.dll binaries with older, unpatched versions that bypassed CVE-2019-14743. Root cause is abus...

Valve: [GoldSrc] Remote Code Execution using malicious WAD list in BSP file

Summary TEXInitFromWad function calls COMFileBase to get file name from a path into a buffer on the stack. Since COMFileBase does not have boundary checks and the buffer is small, long WAD file name can trigger a Stack Buffer Overflow, leading to arbitrary code execution. Steps to reproduce...

Valve: /applications/dpc_(get|post) provide full access to api.steampowered.com with the Dota2 API key

The vulnerability allowed attackers to call arbitrary API methods using an API key with elevated privileges for Dota2...

Steam 0 day vulnerability affects 1 billion users-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! The Steam platform is currently the most popular game platform steam has over 1 million registered users, with millions of users simultaneously participate in the game. Researchers in the Steam games Windows the client found a 0-day privilege escalation vulnerability, exploit the vulnerability...

CVE-2019-14743

In Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-07, HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Valve\Steam has explicit "Full control" for the Users group, which allows local users to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM access...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-07, HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Valve\Steam has explicit "Full control" for the Users group, which allows local users to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM access...

CVE-2019-14743

In Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-07, HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Valve\Steam has explicit "Full control" for the Users group, which allows local users to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM access...

CVE-2019-14743

CVE-2019-14743 affects Valve Steam Client for Windows (through 2019-08-07). The root cause is insecure permissions in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Valve\Steam and Steam folders, where the Users group has explicit Full control, enabling local users to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Red Hat CVE entries cor...

Valve: [steam client] Opening a specific steam:// url overwrites files at an arbitrary location

If a user opens steam://devkit-1/list-shortcuts?response=/tmp/testfile, a file /tmp/testfile will be created containing the response to this request. Another problem with this is that the file will be overwritten if it already exists. The owner of the file will be the same as the user that runs t...

Valve: WG call injection in /economy/contextcommand

The vulnerability involved insufficient parameter validation in context-specific commands to a web-facing gateway. This allowed some economy queries to be executed outside the actual requesters' capability by confusing the type system. Bypasses for initial fixes were also provided...

DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers' Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison

A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson, a.k.a. "DerpTroll," pledged guilty back in November 2018...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Valve Steam 1528829181 BETA, it is possible to perform a homograph / homoglyph attack to create fake URLs in the client, which may trick users into visiting unintended web sites...