# CVE-2022-24139: Privilege escalation in n/a

> A local attacker with impersonation privileges can hijack named pipes to escalate privileges to SYSTEM or Domain Admin.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Jul 2022
- **Updated:** 9 Jul 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cjq3-q65f-328c

## What is CVE-2022-24139?

CVE-2022-24139 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Jul 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In IOBit Advanced System Care (AscService.exe) 15, an attacker with SEImpersonatePrivilege can create a named pipe with the same name as one of ASCService's named pipes. ASCService first tries to connect before trying to create the named pipes, because of that during login the service will try to connect to the attacker which will lead to either escalation of privileges (through token manipulation and ImpersonateNamedPipeClient() ) from ADMIN -> SYSTEM or from Local ADMIN-> Domain ADMIN depending on the user and named pipe that is used.

Weakness: CWE-668 (Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-24139?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Iobit Advanced System Care.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-24139?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-24139 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-24139 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24139 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2016-20055](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-20055/): IObit Advanced SystemCare 10.0.2 Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2022-24140](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24140/): Code injection in n/a (medium 6.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-24139 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-24139 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Jul 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24139 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24139/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24139/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24139
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24139
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24139

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24139/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.