CVE-2018-4049

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
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 “Games” directory, version 1.2.48.36 (Windows 64-bit Installer). An attacker can overwrite executables of installed games to exploit this vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Affected products

GOG.COM GOG Galaxy: 1.2.48.36

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0723
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0723

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