CVE-2022-41604

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Sep 27, 2022
Updated: May 22, 2025
Reserved: Sep 27, 2022

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.infigo.hr/en/insights/39/elevation-of-privilege-in-zonealarm-extreme-security/
https://github.com/Wh04m1001/ZoneAlarmEoP
https://www.zonealarm.com/software/extreme-security/release-history

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