CVE-2023-26088 is a high-severity symbolic link vulnerability affecting Malwarebytes versions prior to 4.5.23. An attacker can exploit the local quarantine system to delete arbitrary files and potentially achieve privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local user privileges, but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion regarding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.5.23CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:malwarebytes:malwarebytes:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.