CVE-2023-7270 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-7270

Local Privilege Escalation via MSI installer

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in SoftMaker Office 2024 / NX before revision 1214 and SoftMaker FreeOffice 2014 before revision 1215. FreeOffice 2021 is also affected, but won't be fixed. The SoftMaker Office and FreeOffice MSI installer files were found to produce a visible conhost.exe window running as the SYSTEM user when using the repair function of msiexec.exe. This allows a local, low-privileged attacker to use a chain of actions, to open a fully functional cmd.exe with the privileges of the SYSTEM user.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Michael Baer | SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab

References

Affected Vendor

SoftMaker Software GmbH

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Affected Software

Office, FreeOffice
Vulnerable Versions:
2024 / NX, revision 1214, 2024, revision 1215, 2021 revision 1068

Timeline

Official Publish: June 27th, 2024
Last Modified: February 13th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.