CVE-2022-32450

HIGH

AnyDesk 7.0.9 - Privilege Escalation via Symbolic Link Attack in Chat Data Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

AnyDesk 7.0.9 allows a local user to gain SYSTEM privileges via a symbolic link because the user can write to their own %APPDATA% folder (used for ad.trace and chat) but the product runs as SYSTEM when writing chat-room data there.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://anydesk.com
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Jun/44
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Jul/9

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0054
EPSS Percentile 40.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (1)
anydesk/anydesk 7.0.9
Published Jul 18, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026