Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions Affecting system.management.automation package, versions [7.0.0-preview.1,7.0.10)[7.1.0-preview.1,7.1.7)[7.2.0-preview.1,7.2.3)
Threat Intelligence
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- published14 Oct 2025
- disclosed16 Apr 2022
- creditZubair Ashraf, Firooz Akbari, Mattias Borg
Introduced: 16 Apr 2022
CVE-2022-26788 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade System.Management.Automation to version 7.0.10, 7.1.7, 7.2.3 or higher.
Overview
System.Management.Automation is a System Management Automation for PowerShell.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in the module search paths that will return empty strings for special folders that don't exist in some accounts (like System account), and the module path code appends path locations without first checking if the root path is non-empty. An attacker can drop modules in locations that higher privilege accounts will load from, thus gaining escalated privilege code execution.