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Medium severity · published Jul 30, 2019
CVE-2019-14242
An issue was discovered in Bitdefender products for Windows (Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tool versions prior to 6.6.8.115; and Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Bitdefender Internet…
6.7
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Bitdefender products for Windows (Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tool versions prior to 6.6.8.115; and Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Bitdefender Internet Security, and Bitdefender Total Security versions prior to 23.0.24.120) that can lead to local code injection. A local attacker with administrator privileges can create a malicious DLL file in %SystemRoot%\System32\ that will be executed with local user privileges.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AP
Antivirus Plus · Bitdefender
before 23.0.24.120 · source: NVD
ES
Endpoint Security Tool · Bitdefender
before 6.6.8.115 · source: NVD
IS
Internet Security · Bitdefender
before 23.0.24.120 · source: NVD
TS
Total Security · Bitdefender
before 23.0.24.120 · source: NVD
Affected product
AP
Antivirus Plus
Bitdefender
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14242
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14242
Vendor Advisory
https://www.bitdefender.com/support/security-advisories/code-injection-bitdefender-products-windows/
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