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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.7 Medium

CVE-2023-28140

Executable Hijacking

Description

An Executable Hijacking condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions before 4.5.3.1. Attackers may load a malicious copy of a Dependency Link Library (DLL) via a local attack vector instead of the DLL that the application was expecting, when processes are running with escalated privileges. This vulnerability is bounded only to the time of uninstallation and can only be exploited locally. At the time of this disclosure, versions before 4.0 are classified as End of Life.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Qualys Cloud Agent

Default version status: unaffected

  • 3.1.3.34 to < 4.5.3.1affected

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