Chocolatey Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-15264

The Boxstarter installer before version 2.13.0 configures C:\ProgramData\Boxstarter to be in the system-wide PATH environment variable. However, this directory is writable by normal, unprivileged users. To exploit the vulnerability, place a DLL in this directory that a privileged service is looking...

CVE-2022-45301

Insecure permissions in Chocolatey Ruby package v3.1.2.1 and below grants all users in the Authenticated Users group write privileges for the path C:\tools\ruby31 and all files located in that folder.

CVE-2022-45304

Insecure permissions in Chocolatey Cmder package v1.3.20 and below grants all users in the Authenticated Users group write privileges for the path C:\tools\Cmder and all files located in that folder.

CVE-2022-45305

Insecure permissions in Chocolatey Python3 package v3.11.0 and below grants all users in the Authenticated Users group write privileges for the subfolder C:\Python311 and all files located in that folder.

CVE-2022-45306

Insecure permissions in Chocolatey Azure-Pipelines-Agent package v2.211.1 and below grants all users in the Authenticated Users group write privileges for the subfolder C:\agent and all files located in that folder.

CVE-2022-45307

Insecure permissions in Chocolatey PHP package v8.1.12 and below grants all users in the Authenticated Users group write privileges for the subfolder C:\tools\php81 and all files located in that folder.