CVE-2024-7834 - Privilege escalation

Routine

Remediate Within 6 Months

CVE Information|Basic Analysis|Framework Mapping|Web Framework Mapping|Compliance

CVE Information

Original CVE data

Published: September 4, 2024

Updated: September 4, 2024

A local privilege escalation is caused by Overwolf loading and executing certain dynamic link library files from a user-writeable folder in SYSTEM context on launch. This allows an attacker with unprivileged access to the system to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by placing a malicious .dll file in the respective location.

CWE:

CVSS v2-

CVSS v3-

References

https://www.cirosec.de/sa/sa-2024-004

Affected Vendors

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOⁿengine

Privilege escalation

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOⁿengine

CVSS v27.2

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v37.8

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

MITRE CWE Top 25

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

T1529 - System Shutdown/Reboot

T1499.004 - Endpoint Denial of Service (Application or System Exploitation)

T1203 - Exploitation for Client Execution

T1068 - Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

T1059 - Command and Scripting Interpreter

Compliance Impact

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application