CVE-2018-12572

published 2019-03-21

CVE-2018-12572: Avast Free Antivirus prior to 19.1.2360 stores user credentials in memory upon login, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by dumping…

Priority P3 37 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

Avast Free Antivirus prior to 19.1.2360 stores user credentials in memory upon login, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by dumping AvastUI.exe application memory and parsing the data.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
avast	free_antivirus	< 19.1.2360	19.1.2360

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 2.1 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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