{"id":"CVE-2019-17449","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-17449","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:47:50.042Z","title":"Avira Software Updater before 2.0.6.21094 allows a DLL side-loading attack.","description":"Avira Software Updater before 2.0.6.21094 allows a DLL side-loading attack. NOTE: The vendor thinks that this vulnerability is invalid because exploiting it would require at least administrator privileges and would gain only SYSTEM privileges","published":"2019-10-10T16:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:23:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.7,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-426"],"affected":["avira/software updater"],"epss":{"score":0.00402,"percentile":0.34227,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.40%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://safebreach.com/Post/Avira-Antivirus-2019-4-Services-DLL-Preloading-and-Potential-Abuses-CVE-2019-17449","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000142857-Avira-Software-Updater","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://safebreach.com/Post/Avira-Antivirus-2019-4-Services-DLL-Preloading-and-Potential-Abuses-CVE-2019-17449","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000142857-Avira-Software-Updater","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17449","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}