CVE-2019-11396 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Avira Free Security Suite 10 and Avira Software Updater on Windows. It stems from permissive access rights on the SoftwareUpdater folder, allowing an unprivileged user to manipulate files and achieve arbitrary file creation. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local user privileges, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (SYSTEM privileges). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2019CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avira:free_security_suite:2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.0.6.13175CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avira:software_updater:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.