An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Avast Free Antivirus and AVG AntiVirus Free before 20.4 due to improperly handling hard links. The vulnerability allows local users to take control of arbitrary files.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-5898 An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Avast Free Antivirus and AVG AntiVirus Free before 20.4 due to improperly handling hard links. The vulnerability allows local users to take control of arbitrary files.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-04T12:25:16.279Z

Reserved: 2020-05-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-13657

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-06-29T18:15:11.643

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:01:41.830

Link: CVE-2020-13657

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