CVE-2022-38699 ASUS Armoury Crate Service - Arbitrary File Creation via Elevation of Privilege Flaw
A local attacker can exploit symbolic link handling in the logging function to overwrite arbitrary system files, leading to privilege escalation or system disruption.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-38699?
CVE-2022-38699 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in ASUS Armoury Crate Service, published on 28 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-59
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-38699?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Asus Armoury Crate Service.
How do I fix CVE-2022-38699?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-38699 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2022-38699 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38699 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q96q-h836-9q4h.