CVE-2024-42053: Splashtop Streamer

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The MSI installer for Splashtop Streamer for Windows before 3.6.0.0 uses a temporary folder with weak permissions during installation. A local user can exploit this to escalate privileges to SYSTEM by placing a version.dll file in the folder.

Affected products

• Splashtop Streamer: before 3.6.0.0 (fixed in 3.6.0.0)

Published 2024-07-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.