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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 14, 2020· Updated Aug 5, 2024

Local Privilege Escalation present only on the Windows version of PyInstaller

CVE-2019-16784

Description

In PyInstaller before version 3.6, only on Windows, a local privilege escalation vulnerability is present in this particular case: If a software using PyInstaller in "onefile" mode is launched by a privileged user (at least more than the current one) which have his "TempPath" resolving to a world writable directory. This is the case for example if the software is launched as a service or as a scheduled task using a system account (TempPath will be C:\Windows\Temp). In order to be exploitable the software has to be (re)started after the attacker launch the exploit program, so for a service launched at startup, a service restart is needed (e.g. after a crash or an upgrade).

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
PyInstallerPyPI
< 3.63.6

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