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CVE-2022-31262
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-08-17T15:15:08.307 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:45:15.037

Summary

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 — galaxy

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References

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