CVE-2022-31262

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.

• CWE-281

• https://github.com/secure-77/CVE-2022-31262Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://secure77.de/category/subjects/researches/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://secure77.de/gog-galaxy-cve-2022-31262/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgdbx5TJShIExploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/secure-77/CVE-2022-31262Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://secure77.de/category/subjects/researches/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://secure77.de/gog-galaxy-cve-2022-31262/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgdbx5TJShIExploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

Aug 17, 2022

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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