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N-Able's Take Control Agent Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Privilege Escalation
2023-09-14 09:52

A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in N-Able's Take Control Agent that could be exploited by a local unprivileged attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges.Tracked as CVE-2023-27470, the issue relates to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use race condition vulnerability, which, when successfully exploited, could be leveraged to delete arbitrary files on a Windows system.