Sheedantivirus Sheed AntiVirus 2.3 ShavProt Service unquoted search path

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A vulnerability was found in Sheedantivirus Sheed AntiVirus 2.3. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component ShavProt Service. The manipulation leads to unquoted search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-20061. Local access is required to approach this attack. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Sheedantivirus Sheed AntiVirus 2.3. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component ShavProt 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:

sheed AntiVirus 2.3 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the ShavProt service that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by exploiting the service binary path. Attackers can insert a malicious executable in the unquoted path and trigger service restart or system reboot to execute code with LocalSystem privileges.

The weakness was disclosed by Amir.ght as 40497. It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-20061 since 04/04/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/04/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1574.009 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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 (40497) and EUVD (EUVD-2016-10871). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Anti-Malware Software

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• Sheedantivirus

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• Sheed AntiVirus

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• 2.3

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