What is CVE-2017-6186?

CVE-2017-6186 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bitdefender Antivirus_plus, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2017-03-21.

How severe is CVE-2017-6186?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.

RCE in Bitdefender Antivirus_plus

CVE-2017-6186

Code injection vulnerability in Bitdefender Total Security 12.0 (and earlier), Internet Security 12.0 (and earlier), and Antivirus Plus 12.0 (and earlier) allows a local attacker to bypass a self-protection mechanism, inject arbitrary code…

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.001 (34.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6186?: CVE-2017-6186 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bitdefender Antivirus_plus, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2017-03-21.
How severe is CVE-2017-6186?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.