🛡️ CVE-2022-31466
🟠 CVSS 7.9 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-59 NVD
7.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Time of Check - Time of Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in Quick Heal Total Security prior to 12.1.1.27 allows a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation, potentially leading to deletion of system files. This is achieved through exploiting the time between detecting a file as malicious and when the action of quarantining or cleaning is performed, and using the time to replace the malicious file by a symlink.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-59
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-05-23
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
total-security 12.1.1.27

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