CVE-2019-18979

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CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p38

Published

Mar 18, 2020 (Mar 18, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Adaware antivirus 12.6.1005.11662 and 12.7.1055.0 has a quarantine flaw that allows privilege escalation. Exploitation uses an NTFS directory junction to restore a malicious DLL from quarantine into the system32 folder.

Vendors: claranova
Products: adaware antivirus
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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