CVE-2024-42052

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jul 28, 2024
Updated: Mar 20, 2025
Reserved: Jul 28, 2024

Description

The MSI installer for Splashtop Streamer for Windows before 3.5.8.0 uses a temporary folder with weak permissions during installation. A local user can exploit this to escalate privileges to SYSTEM by placing a wevtutil.exe file in the folder.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:L/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:U/UI:N	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-378 Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/SpacePlant/Vulns/blob/main/Advisories/2024/1.md
https://support-splashtopbusiness.splashtop.com/hc/en-us/articles/15813655496603-Splashtop-Streamer-version-v3-5-8-0-for-Windows-released

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