🛡️ CVE-2022-31218 — automation-builder

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-59 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Vulnerabilities in the Drive Composer allow a low privileged attacker to create and write to a file anywhere on the file system as SYSTEM with arbitrary content as long as the file does not already exist. The Drive Composer installer file allows a low-privileged user to run a "repair" operation on the product.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-31218 is classified as CWE-59: Link Following. The software follows symbolic or hard links without verifying their target, so a planted link can redirect an operation to a sensitive file.

Affected software

CVE-2022-31218 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • automation-builder (from 1.1.0 up to 2.5.0)
  • drive-composer (from 2.0 up to 2.7.1)
  • mint-workbench (fixed in 5866)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 June 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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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-59
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-06-15
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
automation-builder 1.1.0 2.5.0
drive-composer 2.0 2.7.1
mint-workbench — 5866

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