CVE-2023-1586 (GCVE-0-2023-1586)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-19 18:35
Modified
2025-02-05 16:16
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Summary
Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a Time-of-check/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the restore process leading to arbitrary file creation. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Avast Avast Antivirus Version: 22.5
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