CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-18979

Published: Mar 18, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023

CVSS 3.x

7.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

4.6 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18979
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

Adaware antivirus 12.6.1005.11662 and 12.7.1055.0 has a quarantine flaw that allows privilege escalation. Exploitation uses an NTFS directory junction to restore a malicious DLL from quarantine into the system32 folder.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Adaware_antivirus	Claranova	12.6.1005.11662 (including)	12.7.1055.0 (including)

References

https://medium.com/%40kusolwatcharaapanukorn/0-days-adaware-antivirus-quarantine-flaws-allow-privilege-escalation-3d1f3c8214ec

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