cve-2019-11230
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-07-18 16:50
Modified
2024-08-04 22:48
Severity ?
Summary
In Avast Antivirus before 19.4, a local administrator can trick the product into renaming arbitrary files by replacing the Logs\Update.log file with a symlink. The next time the product attempts to write to the log file, the target of the symlink is renamed. This defect can be exploited to rename a critical product file (e.g., AvastSvc.exe), causing the product to fail to start on the next system restart.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mcerlane.co.uk/CVE-2019-11230/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109344Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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