Vulnerability · Published Apr 18, 2023 · Assigned by Qualys

CVE-2023-28140Executable Hijacking

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled search path in Cloud Agent from Qualys. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 12% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.7Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 87.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An Executable Hijacking condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions before 4.5.3.1. Attackers may load a malicious copy of a Dependency Link Library (DLL) via a local attack vector instead of the DLL that the application was expecting, when processes are running with escalated privileges. This vulnerability is bounded only to the time of uninstallation and can only be exploited locally. At the time of this disclosure, versions before 4.0 are classified as End of Life.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Qualys	Cloud Agent	3.1.3.34 – before 4.5.3.1

Weakness: CWE-427 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://www.qualys.com/security-advisories/ vendor-advisory