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CVE-2016-20059

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-20059 describes an unquoted service path vulnerability (CWE-428) in IObit Malware Fighter 4.3.1's IMFservice and LiveUpdateSvc, enabling local privilege escalation. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.8) allows an attacker to place a malicious executable in the unquoted path, gaining LocalSystem privileges when the service restarts or system reboots. The attack vector is local with low complexity, requiring no user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit modules available in common frameworks. Community discussion is minimal, with only one mention, suggesting low current attention to this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:iobit:malware_fighter:*:*:*:*:free:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

8.5HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
7.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0018 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exploit-db.com / exploits/40525
ExploitVDB Entry
vulncheck.com / advisories/iobit-malware-fighter-unquoted-service-path-privilege-escalation
Third Party Advisory
iobit.com / downloadcenter.php
Product
iobit.com / en/index.php
Product