THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-12042
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2019-12042

Panda Antivirus vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.6%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Insecure permissions of the section object Global\PandaDevicesAgentSharedMemory and the event Global\PandaDevicesAgentSharedMemoryChange in Panda products before 18.07.03 allow attackers to queue an event (as an encrypted JSON string) to the system service AgentSvc.exe, which leads to privilege escalation when the CmdLineExecute event is queued. This affects Panda Antivirus, Panda Antivirus Pro, Panda Dome, Panda Global Protection, Panda Gold Protection, and Panda Internet Security.
Affected vendor
Pandasecurity
Affected product
Panda Antivirus
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Published
2019-05-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-12042

  • Confirm whether Pandasecurity Panda Antivirus is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-12042.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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