CVE-2025-47422 – Advanced Installer Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-47422 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Jul. 08, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.
    Added Reference https://www.advancedinstaller.com/advanced-installer-security-fixes-retrospective.html
    Added Reference https://www.advancedinstaller.com/release-22.6.html
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