CVE-2021-45338
published 2021-12-27CVE-2021-45338: Multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Avast Antivirus prior to 20.4 allow a local user to gain elevated privileges by calling unnecessarily powerful…
PriorityP341high7.8CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
0.38%
29.9th percentile
Multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Avast Antivirus prior to 20.4 allow a local user to gain elevated privileges by calling unnecessarily powerful internal methods of the main antivirus service which could lead to the (1) arbitrary file delete, (2) write and (3) reset security.
Affected
1 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| avast | antivirus | < 20.4 | 20.4 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.1https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.2https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.3https://www.avast.com/hacker-hall-of-fame/en/researcher-david-eade-reports-antitrack-bug-to-avast-0https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.1https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.2https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.3https://www.avast.com/hacker-hall-of-fame/en/researcher-david-eade-reports-antitrack-bug-to-avast-0
2021-12-27
Published