Privilege escalation via installer search-path substitution
Published Jul 27, 2023 · Updated Feb 13, 2025
Uncontrolled search paths in installers for affected Arm development tools allow local users to gain privileges through file substitution. The installer searches an unconstrained path and loads or executes an attacker-controlled substitute instead of the intended file. Exploitation requires write access to add or replace a file in that search path, after which installer execution runs the substitute with the installer's privileges.
Summary
What happened
Uncontrolled search paths in installers for affected Arm development tools allow local users to gain privileges through file substitution. The installer searches an unconstrained path and loads or executes an attacker-controlled substitute instead of the intended file. Exploitation requires write access to add or replace a file in that search path, after which installer execution runs the substitute with the installer's privileges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-43703
- Published
- Jul 27, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-427, CAPEC-233, T1574.005
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 27, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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