01 Record
CVE-2021-44226
Razer Synapse before 3.7.0228.022817 allows privilege escalation because it relies on %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer\Synapse3\Service\bin even if %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer has been created by any unprivileged user
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Razer Synapse before 3.7.0228.022817 allows privilege escalation because it relies on %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer\Synapse3\Service\bin even if %PROGRAMDATA%\Razer has been created by any unprivileged user
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.90% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 59.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2022-03-23 00:00Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 04:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-11-26
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427Uncontrolled Search Path ElementBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 973805cf8df3d93154fdb86f36da102bce53524452599e6780b26c5767d540ce
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.razer.comhttps://www.razer.com/community
- www.syss.dehttps://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2021-058.txt
- seclists.org20220325 [SYSS-2021-058] Razer Synapse - Local Privilege Escalationhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Mar/51
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166485/Razer-Synapse-3.6.x-DLL-Hijacking.html
- seclists.org20230126 [SYSS-2022-047] Razer Synapse - Local Privilege Escalationhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/26
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170772/Razer-Synapse-3.7.0731.072516-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html
- seclists.org20230918 [SYSS-2023-002] Razer Synapse - Local Privilege Escalationhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Sep/6
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174696/Razer-Synapse-Race-Condition-DLL-Hijacking.html