Chocolatey Cmder Package up to 1.3.20 C:\tools\Cmder permission

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Chocolatey Cmder Package up to 1.3.20. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file C:\tools\Cmder. Executing a manipulation can lead to permission. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-45304. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability has been found in Chocolatey Cmder Package up to 1.3.20 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the file C:\tools\Cmder. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-275. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Insecure permissions in Chocolatey Cmder package v1.3.20 and below grants all users in the Authenticated Users group write privileges for the path C:\tools\Cmder and all files located in that folder.

The weakness was disclosed 11/29/2022. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-45304 since 11/14/2022. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1222.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Chocolatey

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• Cmder Package

Version

• 1.3.0
• 1.3.1
• 1.3.2
• 1.3.3
• 1.3.4
• 1.3.5
• 1.3.6
• 1.3.7
• 1.3.8
• 1.3.9
• 1.3.10
• 1.3.11
• 1.3.12
• 1.3.13
• 1.3.14
• 1.3.15
• 1.3.16
• 1.3.17
• 1.3.18
• 1.3.19
• 1.3.20

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