Keystroke disclosure via world-readable plaintext logs
Published May 30, 2023 · Updated Jan 13, 2025
Information disclosure in Faronics Insight 10.0.19045 on Windows allows local users to read cleartext keystroke logs. The Student Console records every keypress in plaintext files under C:\ProgramData\Faronics\Insight\Data\KeyLogs and gives all local users read access to that directory. Any local account can recover typed personal data or account credentials left in the files without interacting with the student whose input was captured.
Summary
What happened
Information disclosure in Faronics Insight 10.0.19045 on Windows allows local users to read cleartext keystroke logs. The Student Console records every keypress in plaintext files under C:\ProgramData\Faronics\Insight\Data\KeyLogs and gives all local users read access to that directory. Any local account can recover typed personal data or account credentials left in the files without interacting with the student whose input was captured.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-28351
- Published
- May 30, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 13, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-532, T1005
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 30, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Public exploit references
- Plaintext keystroke-log extraction procedureproof of concept · demonstrated
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