Vulnerabilites related to NortonLifeLock - Avast and AVG Antivirus
CVE-2022-4173 (GCVE-0-2022-4173)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-05 23:15
Modified
2025-04-14 17:57
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CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
A vulnerability within the malware removal functionality of Avast and AVG Antivirus allowed an attacker with write access to the filesystem, to escalate his privileges in certain scenarios. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.10.
References
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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NortonLifeLock | Avast and AVG Antivirus |
Version: 20.5 < |
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