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CVE-2022-4173

Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows vulnerable to Privilege Escalation PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A vulnerability within the malware removal functionality of Avast and AVG Antivirus allowed an attacker with write access to the filesystem, to escalate his privileges in certain scenarios. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.10.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
NortonLifeLock / Avast and AVG Antivirusaffected 20.5 through 22.9

CWE

CWE-269

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.

CISA-ADP

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