🛡️ CVE-2022-24138
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-552 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

IOBit Advanced System Care (Asc.exe) 15 and Action Download Center both download components of IOBit suite into ProgramData folder, ProgramData folder has "rwx" permissions for unprivileged users. Low privilege users can use SetOpLock to wait for CreateProcess and switch the genuine component with a malicious executable thus gaining code execution as a high privilege user (Low Privilege -> high integrity ADMIN).

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-552
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-07-06
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
advanced-systemcare

References

Not Applicable http://advanced.com
Vendor Advisory http://iobit.com
Not Applicable http://advanced.com
Vendor Advisory http://iobit.com

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