CVE-2005-1286: Softwin Bitdefender Antivirus

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in BitDefender 8 allows local users to prevent BitDefender from starting by creating a malicious C:\program.exe, possibly due to the lack of quoting of the full pathname when executing a process.

Affected products

• Softwin Bitdefender Antivirus: version professional_plus_8 only; version standard_8 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.