Total Defense Anti-Virus 9.0.0.773 Access Control AMRT.exe privileges management

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Total Defense Anti-Virus 9.0.0.773. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality in the library bdcore.dll of the file AMRT.exe of the component Access Control. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-13356. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Total Defense Anti-Virus 9.0.0.773 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block in the library bdcore.dll of the file AMRT.exe of the component Access Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In Total Defense Anti-virus 9.0.0.773, insecure access control for the directory %PROGRAMDATA%\TotalDefense\Consumer\ISS\9\bd\TDUpdate2\ used by AMRT.exe allows local attackers to hijack bdcore.dll, which leads to privilege escalation when the AMRT service loads the DLL.

The weakness was shared 09/24/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-13356 since 07/05/2019. Local access is required to approach this attack. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/27/2023). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries VDB-142155 and VDB-142153 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Anti-Malware Software

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• Total Defense

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• Anti-Virus

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• 9.0.0.773

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