High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 11, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-12441

Description

The CorsairService Service in Corsair Utility Engine is installed with insecure default permissions, which allows unprivileged local users to execute arbitrary commands via modification of the CorsairService BINARY_PATH_NAME, leading to complete control of the affected system. The issue exists due to the Windows "Everyone" group being granted SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS permissions to the CorsairService Service.

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Affected products

CORSAIR/Corsair Utility Enginellm-fuzzy

Patches

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References

github.com/TheRealJoeDoran/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-12441/CVE-2018-12441.txtnvdThird Party Advisory

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