CVE-2023-7016 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Thales SafeNet Authentication Client prior to version 10.8 R10 on Windows, allowing an attacker with local access to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability risks, but requires local access and no user interaction. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0, < 10.8CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:thalesgroup:safenet_authentication_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 10.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:thalesgroup:safenet_authentication_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:thalesgroup:safenet_authentication_client:10.8:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:thalesgroup:safenet_authentication_client:10.8:r1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:thalesgroup:safenet_authentication_client:10.8:r5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/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, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 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.