Temporary Directory Race Condition Enables Local Privilege Escalation

The affected product extracts installation files to a temporary directory with incorrect default permissions during administrative installation. A low-privileged local attacker can exploit a TOCTOU race condition with a practical time window to replace verified files with malicious ones before installation, resulting in local privilege escalation.

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Analysis

This vulnerability exploits a classic TOCTOU (Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use) race condition in administrative installation workflows where setup files are extracted to temporary directories with overly permissive default permissions. A low-privileged attacker can monitor the extraction process and inject malicious files into the temporary directory before the installation mechanism verifies and executes them, resulting in local privilege escalation. This affects any organization deploying the vulnerable product with administrative privileges, making it particularly dangerous in enterprise environments where standard users may trigger software updates or installations through management tools.

Casky's 203 matched security skills enable practitioners to identify the attack chain mapped to MITRE ATT&CK technique TA0004 (Privilege Escalation) by analyzing telemetry patterns characteristic of this exploitation. Using Claude AI with extended reasoning, the platform can correlate suspicious signals: temporary file creation with world-writable permissions, rapid file modifications during installation windows, process execution of unexpected binaries from %TEMP% directories, and elevation events immediately following installation processes. Practitioners reviewing findings would observe detection logic flagging the temporal proximity between low-privileged process activity in temporary directories and subsequent high-privileged process execution, alongside permission misconfigurations that create exploitable windows—giving security teams concrete indicators to hunt for active exploitation attempts and harden installation procedures.

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

TA0004

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