🛡️ CVE-2023-27830
🔴 CVSS 9.0 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-269 NVD
9.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

TightVNC before v2.8.75 allows attackers to escalate privileges on the host operating system via replacing legitimate files with crafted files when executing a file transfer. This is due to the fact that TightVNC runs in the backend as a high-privileges account.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-12
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-02-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
tightvnc 2.8.75

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