Vulnerability · Published Jul 18, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-32450
High 7.1
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 46% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 54.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167608/AnyDesk-7.0.9-Arbitrary-File-Write-Denial-Of-Service.html
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Jun/44
- 20220718 Re: AnyDesk Public Exploit Disclosure - Arbitrary file write by symbolic link attack lead to denial-of-service attack on local machine mailing-list