CVE-2024-24810

WiX is vulnerable to DLL redirection attacks that allow the attacker to escalate privileges

State: Published
Severity: 8.3 High
Published: Feb 7, 2024
Updated: Aug 1, 2024
Reserved: Jan 31, 2024

Description

WiX toolset lets developers create installers for Windows Installer, the Windows installation engine. The .be TEMP folder is vulnerable to DLL redirection attacks that allow the attacker to escalate privileges. This impacts any installer built with the WiX installer framework. This issue has been patched in version 4.0.4.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

Affected Products

Product	Versions
issueswixtoolset	<= 4.0.3Affected

References

https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/security/advisories/GHSA-7wh2-wxc7-9ph5

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