osquery is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework. Prior to 5.23.1, on Windows, a local unprivileged attacker can cause a heap buffer out-of-bounds write if there is a query of the processes table targeting a maliciously crafted process, due to unchecked PEB string lengths in process command-line and current-directory reads. If exploited successfully, this could allow a potential local privilege escalation from standard user to SYSTEM. This issue is fixed in version 5.23.1.
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| Description | osquery is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework. Prior to 5.23.1, on Windows, a local unprivileged attacker can cause a heap buffer out-of-bounds write if there is a query of the processes table targeting a maliciously crafted process, due to unchecked PEB string lengths in process command-line and current-directory reads. If exploited successfully, this could allow a potential local privilege escalation from standard user to SYSTEM. This issue is fixed in version 5.23.1. | |
| Title | osquery: Heap buffer overflow in `getProcessCurrentDirectory()` via `processes` table (Windows) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-122 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-10T14:51:35.142Z
Reserved: 2026-06-11T16:34:11.635Z
Link: CVE-2026-54000
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Updated: 2026-07-10T16:30:03Z