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HIGH

CVE-2019-18568

CVE-2019-18568 — Avira Free Antivirus is proned to a local privilege escalation through the execution of kernel code from a restricted user.

Avira Free Antivirus 15.0.1907.1514 is prone to a local privilege escalation through the execution of kernel code from a restricted user.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, airbus

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

avira

antivirus_free_antivirus

CVSS base

8.1

HIGH

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

Products (1)

antivirus free antivirus

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
8.1CVSS 3.0HIGHcvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-680

References

1 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • aviraevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-680other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.