CVE-2019-3567

HIGH

osquery < 3.4.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Hard Link Attack on Extensions Load Path

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In some configurations an attacker can inject a new executable path into the extensions.load file for osquery and hard link a parent folder of a malicious binary to a folder with known 'safe' permissions. Under those circumstances osquery will load said malicious executable with SYSTEM permissions. The solution is to migrate installations to the 'Program Files' directory on Windows which restricts unprivileged write access. This issue affects osquery prior to v3.4.0.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3567

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 62.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-284 CWE-59
Status published
Products (1)
linuxfoundation/osquery < 3.4.0
Published Jun 03, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026