CVE-2021-33436

NoMachine for Windows prior to version 6.15.1 and 7.5.2 suffer from local privilege escalation due to the lack of safe DLL loading. This vulnerability allows local non-privileged users to perform DLL Hijacking via any writable directory listed under the system path and ultimately execute code as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.3 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2022-04-28

Last modified

2024-08-03

Affected products

• Nomachine (Nomachine)

References

• https://github.com/active-labs/Advisories/blob/master/2021/ACTIVE-2021-001.md
• https://knowledgebase.nomachine.com/SU05S00223
• https://knowledgebase.nomachine.com/SU05S00224
• https://knowledgebase.nomachine.com/TR05S10236