CVE-2019-16860: CODE42

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Code42 app through version 7.0.2 for Windows has an Untrusted Search Path. In certain situations, a non-administrative attacker on the local machine could create or modify a dynamic-link library (DLL). The Code42 service could then load it at runtime, and potentially execute arbitrary code at an elevated privilege on the local machine.

Affected products

• CODE42 CODE42: up to and including 7.0.2

Published 2019-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.