CVE-2021-26624: Escanav Escan Anti-Virus

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An local privilege escalation vulnerability due to a "runasroot" command in eScan Anti-Virus. This vulnerability is due to invalid arguments and insufficient execution conditions related to "runasroot" command. This vulnerability can induce remote attackers to exploit root privileges by manipulating parameter values.

Affected products

• Escanav Escan Anti-Virus: before 7.0.31 (fixed in 7.0.31)

Published 2022-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.