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High · 7.8 CVE-2024-29188 EUVD-2024-0956GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg

Malicious directory junction can cause WiX RemoveFoldersEx to possibly delete elevated files

Published Mar 24, 2024 · Updated Aug 2, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

WiX toolset lets developers create installers for Windows Installer, the Windows installation engine. The custom action behind WiX's `RemoveFolderEx` functionality could allow a standard user to delete protected directories. `RemoveFolderEx` deletes an entire directory tree during installation or uninstallation. It does so by recursing every subdirectory starting at a specified directory and adding each subdirectory to the list of directories Windows Installer should delete. If the setup author instructed `RemoveFolderEx` to delete a per-user folder from a per-machine installer, an attacker could create a directory junction in that per-user folder pointing to a per-machine, protected directory. Windows Installer, when executing the per-machine installer after approval by an administrator, would delete the target of the directory junction. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.14.1 and 4.0.5.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
wixtoolset issues < 3.14.1, >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet wix < 3.14.1 3.14.1 GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg
NuGet wix >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5 4.0.5 GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg
NuGet WixToolset.Util.wixext < 4.0.5 4.0.5 GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg

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