CVE-2022-38604

HIGH

Wacom Driver <6.3.46-1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2022-38604. PoCs published by LucaBarile.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains functional exploit code for CVE-2022-38604, demonstrating a privilege escalation technique that leverages filesystem operations to delete arbitrary folders as SYSTEM. The exploit chains multiple primitives to achieve local privilege escalation (LPE).

Description

Wacom Driver 6.3.46-1 for Windows and lower was discovered to contain an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WORKING POC 2 stars
by LucaBarile · poc
https://github.com/LucaBarile/CVE-2022-38604

This repository contains functional exploit code for CVE-2022-38604, demonstrating a privilege escalation technique that leverages filesystem operations to delete arbitrary folders as SYSTEM. The exploit chains multiple primitives to achieve local privilege escalation (LPE).

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Lpe
Complexity
Complex
Reliability
Racy
Target: Microsoft Windows (specific version not specified)
Auth required
Prerequisites: Write access to a directory where folder contents can be deleted · Ability to trigger a privileged process to delete folder contents
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 19, 2026 Full analysis →

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/LucaBarile/CVE-2022-38604
Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
https://lucabarile.github.io/Blog/CVE-2022-38604/index.html
Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
https://lucabarile.github.io/Blog/blog.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0061
EPSS Percentile 44.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (2)
wacom/driver 6.3.45-1
wacom/driver 6.3.46-1
Published Apr 11, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026