Missing Authentication for Critical Function
CVE-2019-15511
Summary
An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the GalaxyClientService installed by GOG Galaxy. Due to Improper Access Control, an attacker can send unauthenticated local TCP packets to the service to gain SYSTEM privileges in Windows system where GOG Galaxy software is installed. All GOG Galaxy versions before 1.2.60 and all corresponding versions of GOG Galaxy 2.0 Beta are affected.
- LOW
- LOCAL
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- LOW
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published