CVE-2021-45338

Description

Multiple 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.

Weakness classification

• nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory