Description
Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-20 has weak folder permissions, leading to privilege escalation (to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) via crafted use of CreateMountPoint.exe and SetOpLock.exe to leverage a TOCTOU race condition.
Published: 2019-08-21
Score: 7.0 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-6317 Valve Steam Client for Windows through 2019-08-20 has weak folder permissions, leading to privilege escalation (to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) via crafted use of CreateMountPoint.exe and SetOpLock.exe to leverage a TOCTOU race condition.
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Microsoft Windows
Valvesoftware Steam Client
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T00:42:03.701Z

Reserved: 2019-08-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-15316

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-08-21T20:15:12.930

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:28:26.183

Link: CVE-2019-15316

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