A vulnerability exists in Quick Heal Total Security 23.0.0 in the quarantine management component where insufficient validation of restore paths and improper permission handling allow a low-privileged local user to restore quarantined files into protected system directories. This behavior can be abused by a local attacker to place files in high-privilege locations, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors Products
Quickheal Subscribe
Total Security Subscribe
Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:quickheal:total_security:23.0.0:*:*:*:*:-:*:*

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-269
CWE-281
CWE-552
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Quickheal
Quickheal total Security
Vendors & Products Quickheal
Quickheal total Security

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A vulnerability exists in Quick Heal Total Security 23.0.0 in the quarantine management component where insufficient validation of restore paths and improper permission handling allow a low-privileged local user to restore quarantined files into protected system directories. This behavior can be abused by a local attacker to place files in high-privilege locations, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
References

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-04T18:58:31.962Z

Reserved: 2026-01-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-69875

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-04T18:52:55.503Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-02-03T18:16:17.150

Modified: 2026-02-11T16:06:40.813

Link: CVE-2025-69875

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-02-04T12:13:51Z

Weaknesses