CVE-2018-18519 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in BestXsoftware Best Free Keylogger versions prior to 6.0.0. It allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges by placing a malicious executable, "syscrb.exe," in a specific program directory due to insecure permissions for the "BUILTIN\Users" group. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity and requiring user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bestxsoftware:best_free_keylogger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.