🛡️ CVE-2022-0357 — antivirus-plus

🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-428 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability in the Vulnerability Scan component of Bitdefender Total Security, Bitdefender Internet Security, and Bitdefender Antivirus Plus allows an attacker to elevate privileges to SYSTEM.

This issue affects:

Bitdefender Total Security

versions prior to 26.0.10.45.

Bitdefender Internet Security

versions prior to 26.0.10.45.

Bitdefender Antivirus Plus

versions prior to 26.0.10.45.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0357 is classified as CWE-428: Unquoted Search Path or Element. A path containing spaces is used unquoted, so the system may execute a different file than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0357 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • antivirus-plus (fixed in 26.0.10.45)
  • internet-security (fixed in 26.0.10.45)
  • total-security (fixed in 26.0.10.45)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.bitdefender.com
www.bitdefender.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-428
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-05-24
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
antivirus-plus — 26.0.10.45
internet-security — 26.0.10.45
total-security — 26.0.10.45

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