CVE-2022-31467

HIGH

Quick Heal Total Security <12.1.1.27 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A DLL hijacking vulnerability in the installed for Quick Heal Total Security prior to 12.1.1.27 allows a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation, leading to execution of arbitrary code, via the installer not restricting the search path for required DLLs and then not verifying the signature of the DLLs it tries to load.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.9
EPSS 0.0028
EPSS Percentile 19.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-427
Status published
Products (1)
quickheal/total_security < 12.1.1.27
Published May 23, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026