CVE-2020-10862 — Improper Privilege Management in Antivirus

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 65.46%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Avast Antivirus
Timeline
PublishedApr 1
Latest updateMay 24

Description

An issue was discovered in Avast Antivirus before 20. The aswTask RPC endpoint for the TaskEx library in the Avast Service (AvastSvc.exe) allows attackers to achieve Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) via RPC.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDavast/antivirus< 20.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-c7gg-gccv-v6c5: An issue was discovered in Avast Antivirus before 20↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-10862: An issue was discovered in Avast Antivirus before 20↗2020-04-01
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CVE-2020-10862 — Improper Privilege Management in Avast | cvebase