CVE-2022-31218

Drive Composer Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published: Jun 15, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD csafCWE-59

7.8HIGH

Description

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:LAttack Vector

Local

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected Products

ABB

commercial·CHaka asea brown boveri, abb group

ABB Automation Builder

ICS / OT / IoT

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

Workaround Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

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References

https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=9AKK108467A0305&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch&_ga=2.38192870.478847987.1655218701-372504397.1647012599

search.abb.com

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/OT/white/2022/icsa-22-202-01.json

raw.githubusercontent.com

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-22-202-01

cisa.gov

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