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CVE-2021-45338

Published: Dec 27, 2021

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

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

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https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.2

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https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.3

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