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TI-2025-42948 Aliases CVE-2025-69875GHSA-vhx6-cjmw-5j2m

A vulnerability exists in Quick Heal Total Security 23.0.0 in the quarantine management…

Priority HIGH 69CWE-269Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Privilege escalation, Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269 and CWE-552.

Summary

A vulnerability exists in Quick Heal Total Security 23.0.0 in the quarantine management component where insufficient validation of restore paths and improper permission handling allow a low-privileged local user to restore quarantined files into protected system directories. This behavior can be abused by a local attacker to place files in high-privilege locations, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00122 1st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:quickheal:total_security:23.0.0:*:*:*:*:-:*:*23.0.0VulnerableQuickheal
  • cpe:2.3:a:quickheal:total_security:23.0.0:*:*:*:*:-:*:* Versions 23.0.0 Vulnerable ·Quickheal

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-69875
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vhx6-cjmw-5j2m

References

Advisory 1

Other 1

  • TI-2017-03127 Stack-based buffer overflow in Quick Heal Internet Security 10.1.0.316 and earlier, Total… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2017-06285 Quick Heal Internet Security 10.1.0.316, Quick Heal Total Security 10.1.0.316, and Quick… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2017-06287 Quick Heal Internet Security 10.1.0.316, Quick Heal Total Security 10.1.0.316, and Quick… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2017-06286 Quick Heal Internet Security 10.1.0.316, Quick Heal Total Security 10.1.0.316, and Quick… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2015-06825 The webssx.sys driver in QuickHeal 16.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service. CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2020-07484 The Quick Heal AV parsing engine (November 2019) allows virus-detection bypass via a… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
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Sources

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