CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2761

7.2 HIGH Published 2009-08-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2009-08-13
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in the scheduler (sched.exe) in Avira AntiVir, AntiVir Premium, Premium Security Suite, and AntiVir Professional might allow local users to gain privileges via a malicious antivir.exe file in the "C:\Program Files\avira\" directory.

Affected configurations

• avira antivir • avira antivir security suite

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-01/0146.html archives.neohapsis.com
http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/01/tzo-2009-2-avira-antivir-priviledge.html blog.zoller.lu
http://www.osvdb.org/55647 www.osvdb.org
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3130 Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46568 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-01/0146.html archives.neohapsis.com
http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/01/tzo-2009-2-avira-antivir-priviledge.html blog.zoller.lu
http://www.osvdb.org/55647 www.osvdb.org
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3130 Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46568 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com