CVE-2022-31466
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 7.9 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2022-05-23
- Last modified
- 2024-08-03
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367, CWE-59
Affected products
References
- https://softwaresec001.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-quick-heal-total-security/
