CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-18979

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-03-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-03-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• claranova adaware antivirus (>= 12.6.1005.11662 <= 12.7.1055.0)

References