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GSD-2023-28140

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20

Details

An Executable Hijacking condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions before 4.5.3.1. Attackers may load a malicious copy of a Dependency Link Library (DLL) via a local attack vector instead of the DLL that the application was expecting, when processes are running with escalated privileges. This vulnerability is bounded only to the time of uninstallation and can only be exploited locally. At the time of this disclosure, versions before 4.0 are classified as End of Life.

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CVE-2023-28140

Aliases

CVE-2023-28140

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CVE-2023-28140 (GCVE-0-2023-28140)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-18 15:47 – Updated: 2025-02-26 19:23

Summary

Severity ?

6.7 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Assigner

Qualys

References

URL

Tags

https://www.qualys.com/security-advisories/

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Qualys	Cloud Agent	Affected: 3.1.3.34 , < 4.5.3.1 (custom)

Credits

Lockheed Martin Red Team

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Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2023-28140 (GCVE-0-2023-28140)

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