CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-47422
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-07-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-266
Description
Advanced Installer before 22.6 has an uncontrolled search path element local privilege escalation vulnerability. When running as SYSTEM in certain configurations, Advanced Installer looks in standard-user writable locations for non-existent binaries and executes them as SYSTEM. A low-privileged attacker can place a malicious binary in a targeted folder; when the installer is executed, the attacker achieves arbitrary SYSTEM code execution.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment weakness
References
- https://www.advancedinstaller.com/advanced-installer-security-fixes-retrospective.html www.advancedinstaller.com
- https://www.advancedinstaller.com/advanced-installer-security-fixes-retrospective.html#update-deprecated-apis-used-to-resolve-paths www.advancedinstaller.com
- https://www.advancedinstaller.com/release-22.6.html www.advancedinstaller.com