Vulnerability · Published Sep 27, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-41604
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity privilege mismanagement 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 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
Check Point ZoneAlarm Extreme Security before 15.8.211.19229 allows local users to escalate privileges. This occurs because of weak permissions for the %PROGRAMDATA%\CheckPoint\ZoneAlarm\Data\Updates directory, and a self-protection driver bypass that allows creation of a junction directory. This can be leveraged to perform an arbitrary file move as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://www.infigo.hr/en/insights/39/elevation-of-privilege-in-zonealarm-extreme-security/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/Wh04m1001/ZoneAlarmEoP x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.zonealarm.com/software/extreme-security/release-history x_refsource_MISC