CVE-2019-18194

HIGH 7.8CVE-2019-18194 · Published 10/01/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-18194 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting totalav 2020 (totalav).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.2%, higher than 82.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
totalav 2020 totalav	`= 4.14.31`	No fix yet

Description

TotalAV 2020 4.14.31 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.

References

bogner.sh/2017/11/avgater-getting-local-admin-by-abusing-the-anti-virus-quarantine · Third Party Advisory
youtube.com/watch · Exploit

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