CVE-2019-18194: Totalav 2020

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

TotalAV 2020 4.14.31 has a quarantine flaw that allows privilege escalation. Exploitation uses an NTFS directory junction to restore a malicious DLL from quarantine into the system32 folder.

Affected products

• Totalav Totalav 2020: version 4.14.31 only

Published 2020-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.