CVE-2023-4996CWE-281

Local privilege escalation

Medium · published November 6, 2023

CVSS v3.1
6.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Netskope was made aware of a security vulnerability in its NSClient product for version 100 & prior where a malicious non-admin user can disable the Netskope client by using a specially-crafted package. The root cause of the problem was a user control code when called by a Windows ServiceController did not validate the permissions associated with the user before executing the user control code. This user control code had permissions to terminate the NSClient service.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00380 · 30.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-281 · Improper Preservation of Permissions
Published
2023-11-06T10:16Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 NOV 10:16Z
    Local privilege escalation
    cvelistv5