Description
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.
Published: 2020-03-18
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-8639 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.
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Claranova Adaware Antivirus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T02:02:39.850Z

Reserved: 2019-11-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-18979

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-03-18T21:15:11.993

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:33:55.607

Link: CVE-2019-18979

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