CVE-2022-31216
Drive Composer Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
02 Description
Drive Composer Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.32% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 25.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2022-06-15 18:47Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 18:29Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2022-05-19
- Assigning CNA
- ABB
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.8)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 64d57121478fcfe954e02f73af967902a52cbfca00ffc38c63840cec0084a533
05 Affected products
06 References
07 Remediation
The problem is corrected in the following product versions: Drive Composer entry version 2.7.1 Drive Composer pro version 2.7.1 Customers using Drive composer pro integrated in ABB Automation Builder should refer to section “Workarounds” in this document. Mint WorkBench Build 5868 ABB recommends that customers apply the update at earliest convenience. Updated versions of Drive Composer are available immediately. ABB Automation Builder 2.5.1 and Mint WorkBench Build 5868 will be available before or during Q3/2022.