CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-24618

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.24%

15th percentile - higher than 15% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Heimdal.Wizard.exe installer in Heimdal Premium Security 2.5.395 and earlier has insecure permissions, allowing unprivileged local users to elevate privileges to SYSTEM via the 'Browse For Folder' window accessible by triggering a repair on the MSI package located in C:\Windows\Installer.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can gain full system control, compromising the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and the entire IT infrastructure.

Recommendation

Immediately update Heimdal Premium Security to a version newer than 2.5.395 and restrict local user permissions.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Heimdal.Wizard.exe installer in Heimdal Premium Security 2.5.395 and earlier has insecure permissions, which allows unprivileged local users to elevate privileges to SYSTEM via the "Browse For Folder" window accessible by triggering a "Repair" on the MSI package located in C:\Windows\Installer.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS