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CVE-2018-3974

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-04-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

An exploitable local privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the file system permissions of GOG Galaxy's install directory. An attacker can overwrite an executable that is launched as a system service on boot by default to exploit this vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

Affected products

• GOG.COM GOG Galaxy: 1.2.45.61

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0640
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0640

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