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CVE-2021-44226 (GCVE-0-2021-44226)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-23 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:17
VLAI
Summary
Razer Synapse before 3.7.0228.022817 allows privilege escalation because it relies on %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer\Synapse3\Service\bin even if %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer has been created by any unprivileged user before Synapse is installed. The unprivileged user may have placed Trojan horse DLLs there.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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