DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in Quick Heal Total Security

published 2022-05-23 4y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-52931

cvss: 7.9; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 22%
public exploits: 0; none known

A DLL hijacking vulnerability in the installed for Quick Heal Total Security prior to 12.1.1.27 allows a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation, leading to execution of arbitrary code, via the installer not restricting the search path for required DLLs and then not verifying the signature of the DLLs it tries to load.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

quickheal total_security 12.1.1.27

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Exploit prediction

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.4	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

softwaresec001.wordpress.com /2022/05/13/dll-hijack-vulnerability-fixed-in-quick-heal-total-security/
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-31467
NVD CVE-2022-31467

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