CVE-2018-4049: Gog Galaxy

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable local privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the file system permissions of GOG Galaxy's “Games” directory, version 1.2.48.36 (Windows 64-bit Installer). An attacker can overwrite executables of installed games to exploit this vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Affected products

• Gog Galaxy: version 1.2.48.36 only

Published 2019-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.