🛡️ CVE-2022-32450
🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-59 NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-59
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-07-18
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
anydesk

References

Vendor Advisory http://anydesk.com
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Jul/9
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Jun/44
Vendor Advisory http://anydesk.com
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Jul/9
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Jun/44

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