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CVE-2023-1585

Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a Time-of-check/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the Quarantine process, leading to arbitrary file…

Impact

Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a Time-of-check/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the Quarantine process, leading to arbitrary file/directory deletion. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11 and virus definitions from 14 February 2023 or later.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AvastAntivirus
from 22.5 before 22.11
AvgAnti-Virus
from 22.5 before 22.11

Weakness classification

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