CVE-2020-13657

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-13657
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-29 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionAn elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Avast Free Antivirus and AVG AntiVirus Free before 20.4 due to improperly handling hard links. The vulnerability allows local users to take control of arbitrary files.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Avast Avg Antivirus All All All All
Application Avast Avg Antivirus All All All All
Application Avast Free Antivirus All All All All
Application Avast Free Antivirus All All All All

References

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Release history with notes (2020) CONFIRM forum.avast.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
NEW Avast Version 20.4 (June 2020) CONFIRM forum.avast.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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