CVE-2024-5928 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting VIPRE Advanced Security's Patch Management Agent. A low-privileged attacker can exploit this by creating a symbolic link, tricking the agent into deleting arbitrary files, and ultimately executing code with SYSTEM privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability requires local access but has low attack complexity, allowing for significant impact including full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no public exploit code available, it is not listed on the KEV catalog, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not under active exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12.0.1.214CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vipre:advanced_security:12.0.1.214:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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.