Description
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in TotalAV allows an unprivileged local user to forge the gRPC IPC authentication token, through loading IPC.dll and abuse the SYSTEM service's within TotalAV to execute arbitrary code as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
References3
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.8
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 12 · as of 10 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-22CWE-23
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