CVE-2022-31219 — Vulnerabilities in the Drive Composer allow a low privileged attacker to create

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 &qu

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
ABB	Drive Composer entry	2.0, unspecified
ABB	Drive Composer pro	2.0, unspecified
ABB	ABB Automation Builder	1.1.0, unspecified
ABB	Mint WorkBench	build

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-06-15T18:48:43.674Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-23T18:14:23.909Z

09References

• search.abb.com — https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=9AKK108467A0305&Language…