Vulnerability CVE-2024-7834


Published: 2024-09-04

Description:
A local privilege escalation is caused by Overwolf
loading and executing certain dynamic link library files from a user-writeable
folder in SYSTEM context on launch. This allows an attacker with unprivileged
access to the system to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by placing a
malicious .dll file in the respective location.

 References:
https://www.cirosec.de/sa/sa-2024-004

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