{"id":"CVE-2020-24955","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-24955","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:43:13.822Z","title":"SUPERAntiSyware Professional X Trial 10.0.1206 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation because it allows unprivileged users to restore a malicious DLL from quarantine into the system32 folder via an NTFS directory junction, as demonstrated by a…","description":"SUPERAntiSyware Professional X Trial 10.0.1206 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation because it allows unprivileged users to restore a malicious DLL from quarantine into the system32 folder via an NTFS directory junction, as demonstrated by a crafted ualapi.dll file that is detected as malware.","published":"2020-09-01T22:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:06:11.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-59"],"affected":["superantispyware/professional x"],"epss":{"score":0.00907,"percentile":0.59636,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.91%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/b1nary0x1","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdcqbev-H5I","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/b1nary0x1","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdcqbev-H5I","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24955","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."}