# CVE-2024-50592: Local Privilege Escalation via Race Condition

> Local attackers can escalate privileges to SYSTEM by exploiting a race condition in the Elefant Update Service during repair or update processes.

- **Severity:** High 7.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 3 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fh7h-qp2r-qp8p

## What is CVE-2024-50592?

CVE-2024-50592 is a high-severity vulnerability in HASOMED Elefant Software Updater, published on 8 Nov 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An attacker with local access the to medical office computer can 
escalate his Windows user privileges to "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" by 
exploiting a race condition in the Elefant Update Service during the 
repair or update process. When using the repair function, the service queries the server for a 
list of files and their hashes. In addition, instructions to execute 
binaries to finalize the repair process are included. The executables are executed as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" after they are 
copied over to the user writable installation folder (C:\Elefant1). This
 means that a user can overwrite either "PostESUUpdate.exe" or 
"Update_OpenJava.exe" in the time frame after the copy and before the 
execution of the final repair step. The overwritten executable is then executed as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM".

Weakness: CWE-367 (Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50592?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-50592?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-50592 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-50592 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-50592 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-50592 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-50592 is a high-severity vulnerability in HASOMED Elefant Software Updater, published on 8 Nov 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-50592 exists.

Affected product: HASOMED Elefant Software Updater. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50592/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50592/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50592
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50592
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-50592

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50592/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.