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1 vulnerability found for NETGATE AMITI Antivirus by Netgate

CVE-2016-20058 (GCVE-0-2016-20058)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-04 13:51
Modified
2026-04-06 17:52
CWE
  • CWE-428 - Unquoted Search Path or Element
Summary
Netgate AMITI Antivirus build 23.0.305 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the AmitiAvSrv and AmitiAntivirusHealth services that allows local attackers to escalate privileges. Attackers can place a malicious executable in the unquoted service path and trigger service restart or system reboot to execute code with LocalSystem privileges.
Impacted products
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