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CVE-2024-13959

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CVE-2024-13959

Published: May 9, 2025

Modified: May 9, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

Description

Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in TuneupSvc.exe in AVG TuneUp 24.2.16593.9844 on Windows allows local attackers to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM via creating a symbolic link and leveraging the service to delete a directory

VendorProductVersions

AVG

TuneUp

affected
24.2.16593.9844
unaffected
24.3.17165.10564

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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