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.
Published: 2022-05-23
Score: 7.9 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD 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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Quickheal Total Security
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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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-05-23T19:16:07.740

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:04:30.453

Link: CVE-2022-31466

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