CVE-2020-11081

osquery susceptible to DLL search order hijacking of zlib1.dll

Published Jul 10, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
osquery before version 4.4.0 enables a privilege escalation vulnerability. If a Window system is configured with a PATH that contains a user-writable directory then a local user may write a zlib1.dll DLL, which osquery will attempt to load. Since osquery runs with elevated privileges this enables local escalation. This is fixed in version 4.4.0.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-3445 osquery before version 4.4.0 enables a privilege escalation vulnerability. If a Window system is configured with a PATH that contains a user-writable directory then a local user may write a zlib1.dll DLL, which osquery will attempt to load. Since osquery runs with elevated privileges this enables local escalation. This is fixed in version 4.4.0.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 11:21 AM
Reserved
Mar 30, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 10, 2020, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:49 AM