CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-24574
High (7.8) in gog galaxy. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The client (aka GalaxyClientService.exe) in GOG GALAXY through 2.0.41 (as of 12:58 AM Eastern, 9/26/21) allows local privilege escalation from any authenticated user to SYSTEM by instructing the Windows service to execute arbitrary commands. This occurs because the attacker can inject a DLL into GalaxyClient.exe, defeating the TCP-based "trusted client" protection mechanism.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 49% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CWE
- CWE-798
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gog:galaxy
References
- https://github.com/jtesta/gog_galaxy_client_service_poc
- https://github.com/jtesta/gog_galaxy_client_service_poc/issues/1#issuecomment-926932218
- https://www.gog.com/galaxy
- https://www.positronsecurity.com/blog/2020-08-13-gog-galaxy_client-local-privilege-escalation_deuce/
- https://github.com/jtesta/gog_galaxy_client_service_poc