CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-19929
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-12-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-426
Description
An Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Malwarebytes AdwCleaner before 8.0.1 could cause arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges when a malicious DLL library is loaded by the product.
Affected configurations
• malwarebytes adwcleaner (< 8.0.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
References
- https://borncity.com/win/2019/12/19/adwcleaner-8-0-1-closes-a-dll-hijacking-vulnerability/ Vendor Advisory
- https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/254898-release-adwcleaner-801/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/adwcleaner-801-fixes-dll-hijacking-vulnerability/ Third Party Advisory
- https://borncity.com/win/2019/12/19/adwcleaner-8-0-1-closes-a-dll-hijacking-vulnerability/ Vendor Advisory
- https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/254898-release-adwcleaner-801/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/adwcleaner-801-fixes-dll-hijacking-vulnerability/ Third Party Advisory