CVE-2023-27830 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting TightVNC versions prior to 2.8.75. Attackers can exploit this by replacing legitimate files with malicious ones during a file transfer, leveraging TightVNC's high-privilege backend execution. With a CVSS score of 9.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion regarding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.8.75CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tightvnc:tightvnc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.