CVE-2022-24138: Iobit Advanced Systemcare

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IOBit Advanced System Care (Asc.exe) 15 and Action Download Center both download components of IOBit suite into ProgramData folder, ProgramData folder has "rwx" permissions for unprivileged users. Low privilege users can use SetOpLock to wait for CreateProcess and switch the genuine component with a malicious executable thus gaining code execution as a high privilege user (Low Privilege -> high integrity ADMIN).

Affected products

• Iobit Advanced Systemcare: version 15 only

Published 2022-07-06. Last modified 2026-07-09.