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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2022-38699 EUVD-2022-41268GHSA-q96q-h836-9q4h

ASUS Armoury Crate Service - Arbitrary File Creation via Elevation of Privilege Flaw

Published Sep 28, 2022 · Updated May 21, 2025 · Assigned by twcert

Description

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 file, causing the logging function to overwrite the system file and disrupt the system.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ASUS Armoury Crate Service 5.1.5.0 —

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