Drive Composer Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

published 2022-06-15 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-52801

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

abb drive_composer 2.7.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-22-202-01 updated 2022-07-21 cvss 7.8

ABB Drive Composer, Automation Builder, Mint Workbench

ABB Automation Builder >= 1.1.0, <= 2.5.0 ABB Drive Composer Entry >= 2.0, <= 2.7 ABB Drive Composer Pro >= 2.0, <= 2.7 ABB Mint Workbench <= 5866
affected: vendor fix, mitigation “ABB Drive Composer: Update to v2.7.1 or later” new.abb.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-23)

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

ABB Drive Composer entry
ABB Drive Composer pro
ABB ABB Automation Builder
ABB Mint WorkBench

Classification

Weakness

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

search.abb.com /library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=9AKK108467A0305&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch&_ga=2.38192870
mitigation, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-31217
NVD CVE-2022-31217

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Summary