In Avast Antivirus before v17, an unprivileged user (and thus malware or a virus) can mark an arbitrary process as Trusted from the perspective of the Avast product. This bypasses the Self-Defense feature of the product, opening a door to subsequent attack on many of its components.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-04-27T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:22.373Z

Reserved: 2017-04-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-8308

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-04-27T20:59:00.200

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-8308

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