CVE-2019-17100Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Bitdefender Total Security 2020 (VA-5895)
- 5.2MediumCVSS base score
- 0.34%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 72% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in bdserviceshost.exe as used in Bitdefender Total Security 2020 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This issue does not affect: Bitdefender Total Security versions prior to 24.0.12.69.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Bitdefender
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| BitdefenderCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.2.
Affected products
Bitdefender · bdserviceshost.exe
- affected unspecified – ≤ 24.0.12.69
What to do
Solution: Automatic update to Bitdefender Total Security version 24.0.12.69 mitigates the issue
References
References1
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-7566 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2019-17100)Record last updated .