Detections
Analytics
CVE-2021-33436
high
Description
NoMachine for Windows prior to version 6.15.1 and 7.5.2 suffer from local privilege escalation due to the lack of safe DLL loading. This vulnerability allows local non-privileged users to perform DLL Hijacking via any writable directory listed under the system path and ultimately execute code as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
References
https://knowledgebase.nomachine.com/TR05S10236
https://knowledgebase.nomachine.com/SU05S00224
https://knowledgebase.nomachine.com/SU05S00223
https://github.com/active-labs/Advisories/blob/master/2021/ACTIVE-2021-001.md