CVE-2024-23769
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedImproper privilege control for the named pipe in Samsung Magician PC Software 8.0.0 (for Windows) allows a local attacker to read privileged data.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceSamsung Magician PC Software 8.0.0 for Windows contains improper privilege control on a named pipe, allowing a local attacker to read privileged data due to insufficient access control on the inter-process communication channel.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 8.0.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm installed Samsung Magician versionOpen Programs and Features or check the application version via Help > About in Samsung Magician. On Windows, you can also check the version in the registry under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Samsung Electronics\Samsung Magician or in the program's executable properties.Affected if The installed version is Samsung Magician 8.0.0 exactly, as this is the only affected version listed.
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Locate Samsung Magician named pipeIdentify active named pipes owned by the Samsung Magician service using Sysinternals PipeList or by inspecting running processes with Process Explorer to find the service's named pipe endpoints.Affected if A named pipe associated with Samsung Magician service exists and is accessible for inter-process communication.
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Inspect named pipe access controlUse Sysinternals AccessChk or icacls to query the security descriptor of the Samsung Magician named pipe. Run: accesschk.exe -a \pipe\<pipe_name> to see which users/groups have read or write access.Affected if The named pipe grants Read or Write access to non-privileged users such as Users group or Everyone, indicating improper ACL configuration.
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Verify privilege separationAttempt to read from the named pipe using a low-privilege account or by analyzing the pipe's security descriptor to confirm whether only privileged users/processes are authorized.Affected if A local unprivileged user or process can successfully open and read from the Samsung Magician named pipe, confirming the vulnerability is present.
You are affected if Samsung Magician version 8.0.0 is installed AND the application's named pipe grants access to non-privileged users, allowing local unprivileged attackers to read privileged data.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply vendor-supplied patch/update to Samsung Magician PC Software 8.0.0; if no patch available, contact Samsung for remediation. The fix requires implementing proper Access Control Lists (ACLs) on the named pipe to restrict access to authorized privileged users/processes only.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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