CVE-2019-12042: Pandasecurity Panda Antivirus

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insecure permissions of the section object Global\PandaDevicesAgentSharedMemory and the event Global\PandaDevicesAgentSharedMemoryChange in Panda products before 18.07.03 allow attackers to queue an event (as an encrypted JSON string) to the system service AgentSvc.exe, which leads to privilege escalation when the CmdLineExecute event is queued. This affects Panda Antivirus, Panda Antivirus Pro, Panda Dome, Panda Global Protection, Panda Gold Protection, and Panda Internet Security.

Affected products

• Pandasecurity Panda Antivirus: before 18.07.03 (fixed in 18.07.03)
• Pandasecurity Panda Antivirus Pro: before 18.07.03 (fixed in 18.07.03)
• Pandasecurity Panda Dome: before 18.07.03 (fixed in 18.07.03)
• Pandasecurity Panda Global Protection: before 18.07.03 (fixed in 18.07.03)
• Pandasecurity Panda Gold Protection: before 18.07.03 (fixed in 18.07.03)
• Pandasecurity Panda Internet Security: before 18.07.03 (fixed in 18.07.03)

Published 2019-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.