WiX toolset lets developers create installers for Windows Installer, the Windows installation engine. The custom action behind WiX's `RemoveFolderEx` functionality could allow a standard user to delete protected directories. `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. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.14.1 and 4.0.5.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-03-24T19:46:25.875Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:10:54.532Z

Reserved: 2024-03-18T17:07:00.094Z

Link: CVE-2024-29188

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:10:54.532Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-03-24T20:15:08.243

Modified: 2024-03-25T01:51:01.223

Link: CVE-2024-29188

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