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CVE-2022-31262

• 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: 2022-08-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-281

Description

An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in GOG Galaxy 2.0.46. Due to insufficient folder permissions, an attacker can hijack the %ProgramData%\GOG.com folder structure and change the GalaxyCommunication service executable to a malicious file, resulting in code execution as SYSTEM.

Affected products

• GOG.COM GOG Galaxy: from 2.0.46 through 2.0.51

References

• https://github.com/secure-77/CVE-2022-31262
• https://secure77.de/category/subjects/researches/
• https://secure77.de/gog-galaxy-cve-2022-31262/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgdbx5TJShI
• https://github.com/secure-77/CVE-2022-31262
• https://secure77.de/category/subjects/researches/
• https://secure77.de/gog-galaxy-cve-2022-31262/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgdbx5TJShI

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