Netgate Amiti Antivirus 25.0.640 Windows Service unquoted search path

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Netgate Amiti Antivirus 25.0.640. Affected is an unknown function of the component Windows Service. The manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-25269. The attack must be carried out locally. In addition, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Netgate Amiti Antivirus 25.0.640 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Windows Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unquoted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-428. The product uses a search path that contains an unquoted element, in which the element contains whitespace or other separators. This can cause the product to access resources in a parent path. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Amiti Antivirus 25.0.640 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in its Windows service configurations. Attackers can exploit the unquoted path to inject and execute malicious code with elevated LocalSystem privileges by placing executable files in specific directory locations.

The weakness was presented by ZwX as 47747. The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-25269 since 01/06/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/08/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574.009 for this issue.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (47747), CNNVD (CNNVD-202602-892) and EUVD (EUVD-2019-19396). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Anti-Malware Software

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• Netgate

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• Amiti Antivirus

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• 25.0.640

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