CVE-2021-45338

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-45338
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-27 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-12 17:42:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Avast Antivirus All All All All

References

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github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.2 MISC github.com
Vulnerability-Disclosures/CVE-2021-AVST1.1 at main · the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures · GitHub MISC github.com
Researcher Wladimir Palant supports Avast's efforts to protect its users, by submitting vulnerability reports MISC www.avast.com
Vulnerability-Disclosures/CVE-2021-AVST1.3 at main · the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures · GitHub MISC github.com
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