CVE-2023-28122 — A local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in UI Desktop for Windows (Vers

A local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in UI Desktop for Windows (Version 0.59.1.71 and earlier) allows a malicious actor with local access to a Windows device running said application to submit arbitrary commands as SYSTEM.This vulnerability is fixed in Version 0.62.3

01What is this vulnerability?

A local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in UI Desktop for Windows (Version 0.59.1.71 and earlier) allows a malicious actor with local access to a Windows device running said application to submit arbitrary commands as SYSTEM.This vulnerability is fixed in Version 0.62.3 and later.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / UI Desktop for Windows	Fixed on Version 0.62.3 or later.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-04-19T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-05T15:30:04.825Z

09References

• community.ui.com — https://community.ui.com/releases/Security-Advisory-Bulletin-029-029/a47c68f2-1f…