CVE-2018-4051

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5

Description

An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the privileged helper tool of GOG Galaxy's Games, version 1.2.47 for macOS. An attacker can globally create directories and subdirectories on the root file system, as well as change the permissions of existing directories.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2018-4051

Assigner
talos-cna@cisco.com

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2019-04-02T16:29:00

Last Modified Date
2022-06-07T17:19:13

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-732	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/732.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:gog:galaxy:1.2.47:::::macos::	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Access Vector
LOCAL

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
COMPLETE

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
4.9

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
6.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
5.5

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
1.8

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0725	Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4051
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-4051

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-04-20 17:01:15				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 18:56:20	2019-04-02T16:29Z	2019-04-02T16:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-03 18:56:20		2022-06-07T17:19:13	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-03 18:56:20		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated