Jan. 27, 2023, 3:15 p.m. |

National Vulnerability Database web.nvd.nist.gov

Razer Synapse before 3.7.0830.081906 allows privilege escalation due to an unsafe installation path, improper privilege management, and improper certificate validation. Attackers can place malicious DLLs into %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer\Synapse3\Service\bin if they do so before the service is installed and if they deny write access for the SYSTEM user. Although the service will not start if the malicious DLLs are unsigned, it suffices to use self-signed DLLs. The validity of the DLL signatures is not checked. As a result, local Windows users can …

access attackers certificate cve dll escalation installation local malicious management path privilege privilege escalation razer result service signatures start synapse system validation windows

Information Security Engineers

@ D. E. Shaw Research | New York City

Technology Security Analyst

@ Halton Region | Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

@ Valley Water | San Jose, CA

Technical Support Specialist (Cyber Security)

@ Sigma Software | Warsaw, Poland

OT Security Specialist

@ Adani Group | AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, India

FS-EGRC-Manager-Cloud Security

@ EY | Bengaluru, KA, IN, 560048