Vulnerability · Published Mar 23, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-44226
High 7.3
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.3High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 40.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Razer Synapse before 3.7.0228.022817 allows privilege escalation because it relies on %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer\Synapse3\Service\bin even if %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer has been created by any unprivileged user before Synapse is installed. The unprivileged user may have placed Trojan horse DLLs there.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.razer.com/community
- https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2021-058.txt
- 20220325 [SYSS-2021-058] Razer Synapse - Local Privilege Escalation mailing-list
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166485/Razer-Synapse-3.6.x-DLL-Hijacking.html
- 20230126 [SYSS-2022-047] Razer Synapse - Local Privilege Escalation mailing-list
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170772/Razer-Synapse-3.7.0731.072516-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html
- 20230918 [SYSS-2023-002] Razer Synapse - Local Privilege Escalation mailing-list
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174696/Razer-Synapse-Race-Condition-DLL-Hijacking.html