CVE-2022-38699

MEDIUM

Armoury Crate Service - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-6522-4eacb-1.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 30.3%
Attack Vector PHYSICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (1)
asus/armoury_crate_service < 5.2.10.0
Published Sep 28, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026