Quarantine Flaw in Antivirus Products Allows Privilege Escalation
The malware quarantine feature in several antivirus products could have been abused by local attackers to gain administrative privileges on computers. The issue, dubbed AVGater, was discovered by Florian Bogner, a researcher with security firm Kapsch. It exploits a user’s ability to restore suspicious files that antivirus programs have moved to quarantine. Bogner found a..
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