CVE-2022-31467: Quickheal Total Security

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A DLL hijacking vulnerability in the installed for Quick Heal Total Security prior to 12.1.1.27 allows a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation, leading to execution of arbitrary code, via the installer not restricting the search path for required DLLs and then not verifying the signature of the DLLs it tries to load.

Affected products

• Quickheal Total Security: before 12.1.1.27 (fixed in 12.1.1.27)

Published 2022-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.