CWE-1386
Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point
The product opens a file or directory, but it does not properly prevent the name from being associated with a junction or mount point to a destination that is outside of the intended control sphere.
CVE-2023-5834 (GCVE-0-2023-5834)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-27 21:06 – Updated: 2024-09-09 17:58
VLAI
Title
Vagrant’s Windows Installer Allowed Directory Junction Write
Summary
HashiCorp Vagrant's Windows installer targeted a custom location with a non-protected path that could be junctioned, introducing potential for unauthorized file system writes. Fixed in Vagrant 2.4.0.
Severity
CWE
- CWE-1386 - Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point
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CVE-2024-36340 (GCVE-0-2024-36340)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 14:04 – Updated: 2025-05-13 16:51
VLAI
Summary
A junction point vulnerability within AMD uProf can allow a local low-privileged attacker to create junction points, potentially resulting in arbitrary file deletion or disclosure.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-1386 - - Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point
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CVE-2024-7400 (GCVE-0-2024-7400)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-27 07:02 – Updated: 2024-09-27 18:54
VLAI
Title
Local privilege escalation in ESET products for Windows
Summary
The vulnerability potentially allowed an attacker to misuse ESET’s file operations during the removal of a detected file on the Windows operating system to delete files without having proper permissions to do so.
Severity
CWE
- CWE-1386 - Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2024-09-20 10:00
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CVE-2025-58074 (GCVE-0-2025-58074)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-04 13:11 – Updated: 2026-05-22 13:23
VLAI
Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Norton Secure VPN via the Microsoft Store. A low-privilege user can replace files during the installation process, which may result in deletion of arbitrary files that can lead to elevation of privileges.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-1386 - Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
1 product
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Affected:
6.5.0.59
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Mitigation
Phase: Architecture and Design
Strategy: Separation of Privilege
Description:
- When designing software that will have different rights than the executer, the software should check that files that it is interacting with are not improper hard links or mount points. One way to do this in Windows is to use the functionality embedded in the following command: "dir /al /s /b" or, in PowerShell, use LinkType as a filter. In addition, some software uses authentication via signing to ensure that the file is the correct one to use. Make checks atomic with the file action, otherwise a TOCTOU weakness (CWE-367) can be introduced.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.