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1 vulnerability by overwolf
CVE-2024-7834 (GCVE-0-2024-7834)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-04 12:35 – Updated: 2024-09-04 13:15
VLAI?
Title
Local privilege escalation in Overwolf
Summary
A local privilege escalation 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 attacker with unprivileged
access to the system to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by placing a
malicious .dll file in the respective location.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
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Credits
Lukas Bühl <lukas.buehl@cirosec.de>
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