{"id":70549,"date":"2025-09-20T00:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2024-13990-microworld-escan-av-insecure-update-mechanism-allows-man-in-the-middle-replacement-of-updates\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:02:11","slug":"cve-2024-13990-microworld-escan-av-insecure-update-mechanism-allows-man-in-the-middle-replacement-of-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2024-13990-microworld-escan-av-insecure-update-mechanism-allows-man-in-the-middle-replacement-of-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2024-13990 &#8211; MicroWorld eScan AV Insecure Update Mechanism Allows Man-in-the-Middle Replacement of Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2024-13990<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Sept. 19, 2025, 6:54 p.m. | 10\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>MicroWorld eScan AV&#8217;s update mechanism failed to ensure authenticity and integrity of updates: update packages were delivered and accepted without robust cryptographic verification. As a result, an on-path attacker could perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack and substitute malicious update payloads for legitimate ones. The eScan AV client accepted these substituted packages and executed or loaded their components (including sideloaded DLLs and Java\/installer payloads), enabling remote code execution on affected systems. MicroWorld eScan confirmed remediation of the update mechanism on 2023-07-31 but versioning details are unavailable. NOTE: MicroWorld eScan disputes the characterization in third-party reports, stating the issue relates to 2018\u20132019 and that controls were implemented then.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 9.3 | CRITICAL<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2024-13990 Published : Sept. 19, 2025, 6:54 p.m. | 10\u00a0minutes ago Description : MicroWorld eScan AV&#8217;s update mechanism failed to ensure authenticity and integrity of updates: update packages were delivered and accepted without robust cryptographic verification. As a result, an on-path attacker could perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack and substitute malicious update &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}