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ghsa-9v35-rf4g-xvc2

Vulnerability from github

Published

2021-12-28 00:00

Modified

2022-07-13 00:01

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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cve-2021-45338

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-12-27 12:53

Modified

2024-08-04 04:39

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.avast.com/hacker-hall-of-fame/en/researcher-david-eade-reports-antitrack-bug-to-avast-0	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.1	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.2	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.3	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	n/a

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