CVE-2023-7270

Local Privilege Escalation via MSI installer

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Jun 27, 2024
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Jun 17, 2024

Description

An issue was discovered in SoftMaker Office 2024 / NX before revision 1214 and SoftMaker FreeOffice 2014 before revision 1215. FreeOffice 2021 is also affected, but won't be fixed.

The SoftMaker Office and FreeOffice MSI installer files were found to produce a visible conhost.exe window running as the SYSTEM user when using the repair function of msiexec.exe. This allows a local, low-privileged attacker to use a chain of actions, to open a fully functional cmd.exe with the privileges of the SYSTEM user.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OfficeSoftMaker Software GmbH	2024 / NX, revision 1214Not affected
FreeOfficeSoftMaker Software GmbH	2024, revision 1215Not affected
FreeOfficeSoftMaker Software GmbH	2021 revision 1068Affected

References

https://r.sec-consult.com/softmakerexploitthird-party-advisory
https://softmaker.de/download/servicepackspatch
https://www.freeoffice.com/de/download/servicepackspatch
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/5

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