CVE-2025-47422

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-07-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-266

Description

Advanced Installer before 22.6 has an uncontrolled search path element local privilege escalation vulnerability. When running as SYSTEM in certain configurations, Advanced Installer looks in standard-user writable locations for non-existent binaries and executes them as SYSTEM. A low-privileged attacker can place a malicious binary in a targeted folder; when the installer is executed, the attacker achieves arbitrary SYSTEM code execution.

References

https://www.advancedinstaller.com/advanced-installer-security-fixes-retrospective.html
https://www.advancedinstaller.com/advanced-installer-security-fixes-retrospective.html#update-deprecated-apis-used-to-resolve-paths
https://www.advancedinstaller.com/release-22.6.html

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