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CVE-2022-31262 (GCVE-0-2022-31262)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-17 14:37 – Updated: 2024-08-03 07:11
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Summary
An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in GOG Galaxy 2.0.46. Due to insufficient folder permissions, an attacker can hijack the %ProgramData%\GOG.com folder structure and change the GalaxyCommunication service executable to a malicious file, resulting in code execution as SYSTEM.
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