Vulnerability CVE-2009-4556
Published: 2010-01-04   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Quick Heal AntiVirus Plus 2009 10.00 SP1 and Quick Heal Total Security 2009 10.00 SP1 use weak permissions (Everyone: Full Control) for the product files, which allows local users to gain privileges by replacing executables with Trojan horse programs, as demonstrated by replacing quhlpsvc.exe.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Quick Heal Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Maxim A. Kulakov
06.01.2010

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Quickheal -> Antivirus plus 2009 
Quickheal -> Total security 2009 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507121/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36662
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53746
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