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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-29188

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 3/24/2024 4:15:08 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added CVSS V3.1

								
							
							
						
GitHub, Inc. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Added CWE

								
							
							
						
GitHub, Inc. CWE-59
Added Description

								
							
							
						
WiX toolset lets developers create installers for Windows Installer, the Windows installation engine. The custom action behind WiX's `RemoveFolderEx` functionality could allow a standard user to delete protected directories. `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. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.14.1 and 4.0.5.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/security/advisories/GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix/commit/2e5960b575881567a8807e6b8b9c513138b19742 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/commit/93eeb5f6835776694021f66d4226c262c67d487a [No types assigned]