Coverage › CVE-2019-18988
CVE-2019-18988 Unmapped
TeamViewer Desktop Bypass Remote Login Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- TeamViewer — Desktop
- Description (CISA)
- TeamViewer Desktop allows for bypass of remote-login access control because the same AES key is used for different customers' installations. If an attacker were to know this key, they could decrypt protected information stored in registry or configuration files or decryption of the Unattended Access password to the system (which allows for remote login to the system).
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-521
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18988
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2019-18988. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-521) — here is why — and does not guess.
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