CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-27438

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.94%

78th percentile - higher than 78% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in Advanced Installer 19.3 and earlier, and many products using the Advanced Updater, allows remote code execution via the CustomDetection parameter in the update check function. Exploitation requires a user to start an affected installation to trigger the update check.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine, leading to full system compromise, data theft, or malware installation.

Recommendation

Immediately update Advanced Installer to version 19.4 or later, and ensure that products using the Advanced Updater have received the appropriate patches.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Caphyon Ltd Advanced Installer 19.3 and earlier and many products that use the updater from Advanced Installer (Advanced Updater) are affected by a remote code execution vulnerability via the CustomDetection parameter in the update check function. To exploit this vulnerability, a user must start an affected installation to trigger the update check.

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