CVE-2018-10722: Cylance Cylanceprotect

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Cylance CylancePROTECT before 1470, an unprivileged local user can obtain SYSTEM privileges because users have Modify access to the %PROGRAMFILES%\Cylance\Desktop\log folder, the CyUpdate process grants users Modify access to new files created in this folder, and a new file can be a symlink chain to a pathname of an arbitrary DLL that CyUpdate uses.

Affected products

• Cylance Cylanceprotect: before 1470 (fixed in 1470)

Published 2018-05-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.