CVE-2025-47422

HIGH

7.5

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.5

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published7/8/2025

Last Modified7/24/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-266

References

https://www.advancedinstaller.com/advanced-installer-security-fixes-retrospective.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.advancedinstaller.com/advanced-installer-security-fixes-retrospective.html#update-deprecated-apis-used-to-resolve-paths(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.advancedinstaller.com/release-22.6.html(cve@mitre.org)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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