The application's installer runs with elevated privileges but resolves system executables and...

Summary

The application's installer runs with elevated privileges but resolves system executables and DLLs using untrusted search paths that can include user-writable directories, allowing a local attacker to place malicious binaries with the same names and have them loaded or executed instead of the legitimate system files, resulting in local privilege escalation.

Metadata

Article ID

#480301

Source

GitHub Advisory Database

Scraped At

4/1/2026, 6:10:21 AM

URL Hash

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