High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 17, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-31262

Description

An exploitable local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in GOG Galaxy 2.0.46. Due to insufficient folder permissions, an attacker can hijack the %ProgramData%\GOG.com folder structure and change the GalaxyCommunication service executable to a malicious file, resulting in code execution as SYSTEM.

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Affected products

Gog.com/Galaxyllm-fuzzy3 versions
= 2.0.46+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: = 2.0.46
- cpe:2.3:a:gog:galaxy:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*range: >=2.0.46,<=2.0.51
- (no CPE)

Patches

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References

secure77.de/category/subjects/researches/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
secure77.de/gog-galaxy-cve-2022-31262/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
www.youtube.com/watchnvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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