VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-12042

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 3.50%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.50%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Insecure permissions of the section object Global\PandaDevicesAgentSharedMemory and the event Global\PandaDevicesAgentSharedMemoryChange in Panda products before 18.07.03 allow attackers to queue an event (as an encrypted JSON string) to the system service AgentSvc.exe, which leads to privilege escalation when the CmdLineExecute event is queued. This affects Panda Antivirus, Panda Antivirus Pro, Panda Dome, Panda Global Protection, Panda Gold Protection, and Panda Internet Security.

CVSS 3.0: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 3.50% probability · 89th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-732
Affected: pandasecurity/panda antivirus · pandasecurity/panda antivirus pro · pandasecurity/panda dome · pandasecurity/panda global protection · pandasecurity/panda gold protection · pandasecurity/panda internet security
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 3.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

https://github.com/SouhailHammou/Panda-Antivirus-LPEExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://rce4fun.blogspot.com/2019/05/panda-antivirus-local-privilege.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.pandasecurity.com/usa/support/card?id=100063Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/SouhailHammou/Panda-Antivirus-LPEExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://rce4fun.blogspot.com/2019/05/panda-antivirus-local-privilege.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.pandasecurity.com/usa/support/card?id=100063Vendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.