CVE-2011-5044

CVE-2011-5044 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in SopCast 3.4.7.45585. The application installs Diagnose.exe with weak permissions, granting "Everyone" full control. This allows a local attacker to replace the legitimate Diagnose.exe with a malicious executable, leading to arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its low attack complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, indicating a known attack method. There is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.