CVE-2022-4294

published 2023-01-10

CVE-2022-4294: Norton, Avira, Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows may be susceptible to a Privilege Escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may…

Priority P3 38 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

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

Norton, Avira, Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows may be susceptible to a Privilege Escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
avast	antivirus	< 22.10	22.10
avg	antivirus	< 22.10	22.10
avira	avira_security	< 1.1.78	1.1.78
norton	power_eraser	< 119.1.5.1	119.1.5.1
nortonlifelock	avast_antivirus	—	—
nortonlifelock	avg_antivirus	—	—
nortonlifelock	avira_security	—	—
nortonlifelock	norton_antivirus_windows_eraser_engine	—	—

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