CVE-2022-31218: Drive Composer Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Vulnerabilities in the Drive Composer allow a low privileged attacker to create and write to a file anywhere on the file system as SYSTEM with arbitrary content as long as the file does not already exist. The Drive Composer installer file allows a low-privileged user to run a "repair" operation on the product.

Affected products

ABB Automation Builder: from 1.1.0 through 2.5.0
ABB Drive Composer: from 2.0 before 2.7.1 — fixed in 2.7.1
ABB Mint WorkBench: through 5866

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ABB Drive Composer 2.7.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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