CVE-2019-8454: A local attacker can create a hard-link between a file to which the Check Point Endpoint Security client for Windows before E80.96 writes and another BAT file…

PriorityP430high7CVSS 3.1

AVLACHPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.33%

24.4th percentile

A local attacker can create a hard-link between a file to which the Check Point Endpoint Security client for Windows before E80.96 writes and another BAT file, then by impersonating the WPAD server, the attacker can write BAT commands into that file that will later be run by the user or the system.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
check_point	check_point_endpoint_security_client_for_windows	—	—
checkpoint	endpoint_security	< e80.96	e80.96

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.0HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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