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CVE-2019-13356

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

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.

Affected products

• Totaldefense Anti-Virus: 9.0.0.773

References

• https://github.com/NtRaiseHardError/Antimalware-Research/tree/master/Total%20Defense/Local%20Privilege%20Escalation/v9.0.0.773
• https://www.totaldefense.com/security-blog
• https://github.com/NtRaiseHardError/Antimalware-Research/tree/master/Total%20Defense/Local%20Privilege%20Escalation/v9.0.0.773
• https://www.totaldefense.com/security-blog

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