GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/03/GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg/GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg.json

Aliases

• CVE-2024-29188

Published

2024-03-25T19:42:17Z

Modified

2024-03-25T19:58:33.251291Z

Details

Summary

The custom action behind WiX's RemoveFolderEx functionality could allow a standard user to delete protected directories.

Details

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.

References

• https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/security/advisories/GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29188
• https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix/commit/2e5960b575881567a8807e6b8b9c513138b19742
• https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/commit/93eeb5f6835776694021f66d4226c262c67d487a
• https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues