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GHSA-jx4p-m4wm-vvjg

Malicious directory junction can cause WiX RemoveFoldersEx to possibly delete elevated files

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2024-29188

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
NuGet wix < 3.14.1 3.14.1
NuGet wix >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5 4.0.5
NuGet WixToolset.Util.wixext < 4.0.5 4.0.5

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Summary The custom action behind WiX's `RemoveFolderEx` functionality could allow a standard user to delete protected directories. ### Details `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.

References

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