High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Jun 15, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-2270

Description

The Netskope client service running with NT\SYSTEM privileges accepts network connections from localhost to start various services and execute commands. The connection handling function of Netskope client before R100 in this service utilized a relative path to download and unzip configuration files on the machine. This relative path provided a way for local users to write arbitrary files at a location which is accessible to only higher privileged users. This can be exploited by local users to execute code with NT\SYSTEM privileges on the end machine.

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Affected products

Netskope/Netskope Clientllm-fuzzy2 versions
<R100+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <R100
- (no CPE)range: 100;0

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.netskope.com/company/security-compliance-and-assurance/security-advisories-and-disclosures/netskope-security-advisory-nskpsa-2023-001nvdVendor Advisory

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