CVE-2014-5453
Description
Ubisoft Uplay PC before 4.6.1.3217 use weak permissions (Everyone: Full Control) for the program installation directory (%PROGRAMFILES%\Ubisoft Game Launcher), which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Ubisoft Uplay 4.6 - Insecure File Permissions Privilege Escalation
References
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.