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CVE-2022-31262

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2022-08-17 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in GOG Galaxy 2.0.46. Due to insufficient folder permissions, an attacker can hijack the %ProgramData%\GOG.com folder structure and change the GalaxyCommunication service executable to a malicious file, resulting in code execution as SYSTEM.

Affected Platforms

Gog Galaxy

Weakness Type

CWE-281

References