CVE-2022-38699
Published: 28 September 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-38699 is a medium-severity Link Following (CWE-59) vulnerability in Asus Armoury Crate Service. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 30.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-41268
Vulnerability details
Armoury Crate Service’s logging function has insufficient validation to check if the log file is a symbolic link. A physical attacker with general user privilege can modify the log file property to a symbolic link that points to arbitrary system…
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file, causing the logging function to overwrite the system file and disrupt the system.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.