Code execution via untrusted DLL search path
Published Apr 7, 2020 · Updated Sep 16, 2024
Untrusted Search Path in Bitdefender High Level Anti-Malware SDK before 3.0.1.204 allows local users to load third-party code via DLL search paths. The SDK resolves a DLL from an untrusted search-path location instead of constraining loading to a trusted library, so a planted library is executed when the SDK loads it. Exploitation requires local access and the vulnerable Windows SDK deployment; successful abuse provides code execution in the privileges of the integrating process, with no evidence of remote reachability.
Summary
What happened
Untrusted Search Path in Bitdefender High Level Anti-Malware SDK before 3.0.1.204 allows local users to load third-party code via DLL search paths. The SDK resolves a DLL from an untrusted search-path location instead of constraining loading to a trusted library, so a planted library is executed when the SDK loads it. Exploitation requires local access and the vulnerable Windows SDK deployment; successful abuse provides code execution in the privileges of the integrating process, with no evidence of remote reachability.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-8096
- Published
- Apr 7, 2020
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Vendor
- Bitdefender
- Product
- High Level Anti-Malware SDK
- Classifications
- CWE-426, T1574.002
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 7, 2020CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 16, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <3.0.1.204
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