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CVE-2019-18194

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

TotalAV 2020 4.14.31 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.

Affected products

• Totalav 2020: 4.14.31

References

• https://bogner.sh/2017/11/avgater-getting-local-admin-by-abusing-the-anti-virus-quarantine/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88qeaLq98Gc
• https://bogner.sh/2017/11/avgater-getting-local-admin-by-abusing-the-anti-virus-quarantine/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88qeaLq98Gc

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