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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

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/directory deletion.

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
NLOK

Description

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

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

Avast Avast Antivirus

Default version status: unaffected

  • 22.5 to ≤ 22.10affected

AVG AVG Antivirus

Default version status: unaffected

  • 22.5 to ≤ 22.10affected

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