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Improper handling of registry symbolic links in Bitdefender Engines (VA-10562)

Publication date: November 1st, 2022


CVE ID:
CVE-2022-3369
CVSS scrore:
8.6 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected vendors:
Bitdefender
Affected products:
Bitdefender Engines
Vulnerability details:

An Improper Access Control vulnerability in the bdservicehost.exe component, as used in Bitdefender Engines for Windows, allows an attacker to delete privileged registry keys by pointing a Registry symlink to a privileged key.

This issue affects:

Bitdefender Engines versions prior to 7.92659. It also affects Bitdefender Antivirus Free, Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Bitdefender Internet Security, Bitdefender Total Security, as well as Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools for Windows with engine versions prior to 7.92659.

Additional details:
An automatic update to Engines version 7.92659 fixes the issue.