{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-28140 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-28140 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-28140 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualys Cloud Agent, published on 18 Apr 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-28140 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-28140 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualys Cloud Agent, published on 18 Apr 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-28140 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Qualys Cloud Agent. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28140/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28140/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-28140","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28140/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-28140","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-p9j6-7r4q-r5hg"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Qualys Cloud Agent","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can hijack DLLs during uninstallation to execute code with escalated privileges in the Qualys Cloud Agent.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Qualys","cpe":[{"product":"cloud_agent","vendor":"qualys"}],"cvss":{"score":6.7,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-427","name":"Uncontrolled Search Path Element"}],"description":"An Executable Hijacking condition exists in the\nQualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions before 4.5.3.1. Attackers\nmay load a malicious copy of a Dependency Link Library (DLL) via a local\nattack vector instead of the DLL that the application was expecting, when\nprocesses are running with escalated privileges. This vulnerability\nis bounded only to the time of uninstallation and can only be exploited\nlocally.\n\nAt the time of this disclosure, versions before 4.0 are classified as End of\nLife.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Executable Hijacking","id":"CVE-2023-28140","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"NTFS Junction","id":"CVE-2023-28141"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Local Privliege Escalation in Check Point Endpoint Security Remediation Service","id":"CVE-2023-28134"},"products":["Cloud Agent"],"published":"2023-04-18","related":[{"cvss_score":6.7,"headline":"NTFS Junction","id":"CVE-2023-28141","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-18"},{"cvss_score":6.7,"headline":"Race Condition","id":"CVE-2023-28142","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-18"},{"cvss_score":6.7,"headline":"Local Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2023-28143","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-18"},{"cvss_score":5.5,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2022-29550","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-08-18"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-02-26","vendors":["Qualys"]},"summary":"Local attackers can hijack DLLs during uninstallation to execute code with escalated privileges in the Qualys Cloud Agent.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28140/"}