CVE-2014-7872 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Comodo GeekBuddy versions prior to 4.18.121. The flaw allows local users to gain elevated privileges by connecting to the unrestricted VNC server embedded within the software. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity due to its low attack complexity and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code is available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.18.120CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:comodo:geekbuddy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.