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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.6 Medium

CVE-2023-4996

Local privilege escalation

Description

Netskope was made aware of a security vulnerability in its NSClient product for version 100 & prior where a malicious non-admin user can disable the Netskope client by using a specially-crafted package. The root cause of the problem was a user control code when called by a Windows ServiceController did not validate the permissions associated with the user before executing the user control code. This user control code had permissions to terminate the NSClient service. 

Affected products

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

Netskope Netskope Client

Default version status: unaffected

  • 100 & prioraffected

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