Insecure Access Control in Total Defense Anti-virus 9.0.0.773 Allows Privilege Escalation

Insecure Access Control in Total Defense Anti-virus 9.0.0.773 Allows Privilege Escalation

CVE-2019-13356 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

In Total Defense Anti-virus 9.0.0.773, insecure access control for the directory %PROGRAMDATA%\TotalDefense\Consumer\ISS\9\bd\TDUpdate2\ used by AMRT.exe allows local attackers to hijack bdcore.dll, which leads to privilege escalation when the AMRT service loads the DLL.

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