Description
Time of Check - Time of Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in Quick Heal Total Security prior to 12.1.1.27 allows a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation, potentially leading to deletion of system files. This is achieved through exploiting the time between detecting a file as malicious and when the action of quarantining or cleaning is performed, and using the time to replace the malicious file by a symlink.
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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2022-52930 | Quick Heal Total Security before 12.1.1.27 has a TOCTOU race condition that leads to privilege escalation. It may follow a symlink that was created after a malware check. |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T07:19:05.682Z
Reserved: 2022-05-23T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2022-31466
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Status : Modified
Published: 2022-05-23T19:16:07.740
Modified: 2024-11-21T07:04:30.453
Link: CVE-2022-31466
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