CVE•Published 2026-04-04•Modified 2026-04-07•0 articles on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2016-20061
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
sheed AntiVirus 2.3 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the ShavProt service that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by exploiting the service binary path. Attackers can insert a malicious executable in the unquoted path and trigger service restart or system reboot to execute code with LocalSystem privileges.
Timeline
Published 2026-04-04
Modified 2026-04-07
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2016-20061Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2016-20061Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2016-20061Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2016-20061GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2016-20061" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2016-20061 on GitHub.
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