CVE-2022-38699
ASUS Armoury Crate Service - Arbitrary File Creation via Elevation of Privilege Flaw
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.9 Medium
- Published
- Sep 28, 2022
- Updated
- May 21, 2025
- Reserved
- Aug 23, 2022
Description
Armoury Crate Service’s logging function has insufficient validation to check if the log file is a symbolic link. A physical attacker with general user privilege can modify the log file property to a symbolic link that points to arbitrary system file, causing the logging function to overwrite the system file and disrupt the system.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.9 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H | twcert |
Weaknesses
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Armoury Crate ServiceASUS |
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References
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