CVE-2018-4053 Denial of service in GOG Galaxy
A local attacker can crash the GOG Galaxy privileged helper tool on macOS by sending malicious data, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-4053?
CVE-2018-4053 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in GOG.COM GOG Galaxy, published on 2 Apr 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An exploitable local denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the privileged helper tool of GOG Galaxy's Games, version 1.2.47 for macOS. An attacker can send malicious data to the root-listening service, causing the application to terminate and become unavailable.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-4053?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gog Galaxy.
How do I fix CVE-2018-4053?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-4053 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-4053 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-4053 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in GOG.COM GOG Galaxy
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rfw8-5w2f-9vpg.