CVE-2023-1585

Summary

CVECVE-2023-1585
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-04-19 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-05-01 19:01:00 UTC
DescriptionAvast 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-367

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Avast Antivirus All All All All
Application Avg Anti-virus All All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Norton Security Advisories MISC support.norton.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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