Armoury Crate Service’s logging function has insufficient validation to check if the log file is a symbolic link. A physical attacker with general user privilege can modify the log file property to a symbolic link that points to arbitrary system file, causing the logging function to overwrite the system file and disrupt the system.

Related CVEs

CVE-2022-38699

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-q96q-h836-9q4h

Published

September 29, 2022 12:00 AM

Last Modified

October 1, 2022 12:00 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 30, 2025 6:30 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.