CVE-2024-6260 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Malwarebytes Antimalware. An attacker with low-privileged code execution can exploit a symbolic link flaw in the Malwarebytes service to delete arbitrary files, ultimately leading to SYSTEM-level code execution. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High) due to its low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no public exploit intelligence, and it shows minimal community discussion or media coverage, indicating it is not actively exploited or widely known.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:malwarebytes:antimalware:4.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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.