Drive Composer Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2022-31218

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Abb

Status
Drive Composer Entry
Drive Composer Pro
Abb Automation Builder
Mint Workbench
Vendor
CVE Published:
15 June 2022

What is CVE-2022-31218?

Vulnerabilities in the Drive Composer allow a low privileged attacker to create and write to a file anywhere on the file system as SYSTEM with arbitrary content as long as the file does not already exist. The Drive Composer installer file allows a low-privileged user to run a "repair" operation on the product.

Affected Version(s)

ABB Automation Builder 1.1.0

ABB Automation Builder <= 2.5.0

Drive Composer entry 2.0

References

https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=9...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by Michael DePlante (@izobashi) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative. ABB appreciates their actions to keep our products safe for our customers.
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