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HIGH

Race Condition

Published Apr 18, 2023

Description

A Race Condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions from 3.1.3.34 and before 4.5.3.1. This allows attackers to escalate privileges limited on the local machine during uninstallation of the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows. Attackers may gain SYSTEM level privileges on that asset to run arbitrary commands.

At the time of this disclosure, versions before 4.0 are classified as End of Life.

Affected products

Remediation

Vendor solution

Upgrade to version 4.5.3.1 of the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows

Weaknesses (1)

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Qualys
Published Apr 18, 2023
Updated Mar 3, 2025
Reserved Mar 10, 2023
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Feb 10, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner Qualys
Published Apr 18, 2023
Updated Mar 3, 2025
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2023-31853