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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.3 High

CVE-2022-4173

Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows vulnerable to Privilege Escalation

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
NLOK

Description

A vulnerability within the malware removal functionality of Avast and AVG Antivirus allowed an attacker with write access to the filesystem, to escalate his privileges in certain scenarios. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.10.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

NortonLifeLock Avast and AVG Antivirus

Default version status: unaffected

  • 20.5 to ≤ 22.9affected

References