CVE-2024-29187 Information

Description

WiX toolset lets developers create installers for Windows Installer the Windows installation engine. When a bundle runs as SYSTEM user Burn uses GetTempPathW which points to an insecure directory C:\Windows\Temp to drop and load multiple binaries. Standard users can hijack the binary before it’s loaded in the application resulting in elevation of privileges. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.14.1 and 4.0.5.

Reference

https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/security/advisories/GHSA-rf39-3f98-xr7r https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix/commit/75a8c75d4e02ea219008dc5af7d03869291d61f7 https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/commit/6d372e5169f1a334a395cdf496443bc0732098e9