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CVE-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…
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Avast | Antivirus | before 20.4 |
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.1
- https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.2
- https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.3
- https://www.avast.com/hacker-hall-of-fame/en/researcher-david-eade-reports-antitrack-bug-to-avast-0
- https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.1
- https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.2
- https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.3
- https://www.avast.com/hacker-hall-of-fame/en/researcher-david-eade-reports-antitrack-bug-to-avast-0