🛡️ CVE-2023-28142
🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-362 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-362
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-18
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cloud-agent 3.1.3.34 4.5.3.1

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