CVE-2023-28140

HighCVSS 7.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An Executable Hijacking condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions before 4.5.3.1. Attackers may load a malicious copy of a Dependency Link Library (DLL) via a local attack vector instead of the DLL that the application was expecting, when processes are running with escalated privileges. This vulnerability is bounded only to the time of uninstallation and can only be exploited locally.

At the time of this disclosure, versions before 4.0 are classified as End of Life.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.0/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-427

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Apr 18, 2023
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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