fkie_cve-2022-4173
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2022-12-06 00:15
Modified
2024-11-21 07:34
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
security@nortonlifelock.comhttps://support.norton.com/sp/static/external/tools/security-advisories.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.norton.com/sp/static/external/tools/security-advisories.htmlThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
avast avast *
avast avg_antivirus *


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