Netgate AMITI Antivirus 23.0.305 AmitiAntivirusHealth Service unquoted search path

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Netgate AMITI Antivirus 23.0.305. This affects an unknown part of the component AmitiAntivirusHealth Service. This manipulation causes unquoted search path. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2016-20058. The attack is restricted to local execution. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Netgate AMITI Antivirus 23.0.305. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component AmitiAntivirusHealth Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unquoted search path vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Netgate AMITI Antivirus build 23.0.305 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the AmitiAvSrv and AmitiAntivirusHealth services that allows local attackers to escalate privileges. Attackers can place a malicious executable in the unquoted service path and trigger service restart or system reboot to execute code with LocalSystem privileges.

The weakness was disclosed by Amir.ght as 40540. The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-20058 since 04/04/2026. The exploitation appears 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 04/04/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574.009 for this issue.

It is possible to download the exploit 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 (40540) and EUVD (EUVD-2016-10865). 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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• 23.0.305

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