CVE-2022-31466

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CVE-2022-31466

Summary:

Details: 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.

References: , https://softwaresec001.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-quick-heal-total-security/